The program is intended to reduce emissions and groundwater, fire and gas-leak hazards tied to low-producing wells.

New research released by Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy and Resources for the Future (RFF) examines the environmental and job creation benefits of plugging orphaned and abandoned ...

In January, the Department of the Interior stated what many have suspected: there are far more orphaned oil and gas wells in the U.S. than previously estimated. In a memo, the agency wrote that more ...

Tyler Crabtree was working in the oil and gas industry in North Dakota, trying to prevent methane leakage from well sites, when he started “soul searching” for a better way to address climate change.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In January, the Department of the Interior stated what many have suspected: There are ...

Since the drilling of the first oil well in 1859, millions more oil and gas wells have been drilled across the nation. While oil and gas discovery brought in a new era of American energy by enabling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Curtis Shuck of the Well Done Foundation places a fitting in an old gas well pipe during preparations for plugging in Cleveland, ...

Bobby Wright says the seed of the idea was planted about a year and a half ago when he and his dad, Bob, were out on his grandparents’ ranch in Carter County, Oklahoma. Wright’s grandfather, Troy ...

The first U.S. oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania more than 150 years ago. Millions more followed, dotting the country from Southern California to Texas, Oklahoma and Appalachia. But those wells don ...