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 ...

Louisiana will use a $25 million grant to plug, cap and reclaim up to 900 orphaned oil and gas wells across the state in the first phase of a $4.7 billion federal program included in last year’s ...

Louisiana was awarded a $25 million grant that will go toward plugging, capping and reclaiming orphaned oil and gas wells in the state. The money, which was provided to the state through the ...

LOUISIANA (Louisiana Illuminator) - An unprecedented amount of resources are flowing into Louisiana to help address abandoned oil and gas wells that present environmental and safety risks throughout ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Oil well spews thousands of gallons into Louisiana marsh, clean up underway: See aftermath ...

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 ...