Gov. Shapiro must join with the General Assembly to pass a budget this June that provides more resources to DEP’s Oil and Gas ...

THE OLD GAS WELL IN HER FRONT YARD IS ONE OF MORE THAN 200,000 ABANDONED AND GAS OR OIL WELLS IN PENNSYLVANIA, MANY OF THEM EMITTING TOXIC METHANE GAS. A DETECTOR FINDS GAS COMING FROM THIS WELL ...

DEP estimates that there are more than 200,000 orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania. According to a December 2022 DEP report: “Unplugged or improperly plugged wells can cause ...

A large infusion of federal funds is headed to Pennsylvania to plug orphaned oil and gas wells, an announcement the state’s environmental regulators have been anticipating for months. The $76.4 ...

U.S. Reps. Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-PA) and Chris Deluzio (D-PA) introduced the Orphan Well Grant Flexibility Act, which aims to remove federal restrictions and speed up well-plugging efforts ...

An abandoned well is seen on the property of Cheryl and Joe Thomas in Duke Center, Pa., on April 25, 2023. Across Pennsylvania, unplugged oil and gas wells spew a powerful greenhouse gas into the ...

An abandoned oil well in Cornplanter State Forest. Federal money helped Pennsylvania plug 139 abandoned oil and gas wells last year. That’s more than in the eight years before that. Despite the ...

those for the conventional wells have increased more dramatically. (From Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s 2022 Oil and Gas Annual Report) One of the more dramatic incidents this ...

Pennsylvania has more than 350,000 abandoned oil and gas wells, and state officials want more people trained to plug them. To that end, the Shapiro administration and the United Mine Workers of ...

An estimated 200,000 abandoned oil and gas wells pockmark Pennsylvania’s Appalachian plateaus and lush forests. These wells, which once produced oil and gas but have since been abandoned by ...

The well is now among several hundred that Pennsylvania regulators plan to fill and seal over the next year, as part of a federal effort aimed at plugging abandoned oil and gas wells, a safety and ...

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