While filling state revenue coffers and spurring economic activity, generations of oil and gas drilling has also left thousands of orphan wells in need of closure on the taxpayer's dime.

Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Secretary Tom Harris recently announced contractors have plugged 519 orphaned oil and gas well ... identifies the wells as not having a responsible operator ...

SHREVEPORT, La. – About 10 feet from Rickey Jordan’s home, just steps away from the window where his daughter and two granddaughters sleep, an orphaned well is leaking. The 83-year-old well ...

Footsteps churn up oil ... well locations but was “never really leveraged as a tool to improve enforcement,” according to Courreges. President Trump, meanwhile, has aimed to roll back regulations and ...

After a week of uncontrolled spillage, a leak pouring more than 70,000 gallons of oil into a Louisiana marsh has been contained, according to the Coast Guard. However, cleanup of the area ...

After more than a week of oil shooting vertically out of an unused well off the coast of Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Sunday evening that the offshore well blowout — first reported ...

(WAFB) - It’s no secret that Louisiana ... revenue as well as local jobs. “Along with that investment also comes 3,000 jobs both direct and indirect and then also over 4,000 construction ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — More than 100 abandoned oil wells, which can leak cancer-causing chemicals and threaten the environmental health of an area, in Louisiana have been plugged during the last two ...

A light rain washes the contamination toward a channel that drains into the bay, where snaking oil booms aim to hold it back. The leak – significant, yet small by Louisiana standards – has ...

After more than a week of oil shooting vertically out of an unused well off the coast of Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Sunday evening that the offshore well blowout — first reported ...