The bill would have set deadlines for the oil and gas industry to plug inactive wells, which can pose a danger to the ...

Rancher Laura Briggs rises early to care for the livestock scattered across her homestead on the arid plains of West Texas. Briggs and her husband saved up for years to purchase the land and build ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Feb. 4 budget proposal did not go far enough to address the need to fund programs in oil and gas, water, ...

Volatile oil prices are setting the stage for fossil ... Those two states are already responsible for cleaning up about 7,000 such abandoned wells, a task that will cost at least $335 million.

Over the next four years, the Well Done Foundation and U.S. Fish and Wildlife will plug more than 100 orphan wells on public ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Western Missouri is one step closer to resolving a decades-old issue of abandoned oil and gas wells that may pose a threat to human health and the environment.

And the commission should more strongly hold oil and gas companies accountable through “robust” annual well fees ... the funding and called the abandoned sites a danger to Colorado’s ...