On Monday, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that California is eligible for $61,495,000 in the first phase of federal funding to plug orphaned oil and gas wells. This funding from the US Department of the Interior comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which Padilla voted to pass last year....
Colorado is seeking $25 million from a federal fund to plug orphan oil and gas wells, state officials said, in what could be the first installment of millions in cleanup aid. ...
The White House said that they’ll use up to $78 million to cap Oklahoma’s orphaned wells that they say pollute places as small as backyards and as large as public recreation areas....
A plan for how the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) will offer about $4 billion in grant funding to states for cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells is due on Jan. 30, and New Mexico is hoping to get a share of those dollars....
In the flatness of the southern half of Crane County, where a clump of mesquite trees can count as a landmark, you can see a new hundred-foot column of salt water from five, maybe ten miles away. It shoots into the air under extraordinary pressure, as if someone had aimed a fire hydrant straight at the sky. Beginning on New Year’s Eve or in the early hours of 2022, an...
Federal regulators are looking for ways to spend $250 million earmarked for cleaning up abandoned oil wells throughout the U.S. funded by the recent infrastructure bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden....
The regulations were adopted Friday by the state’s Air Quality Control Commission to help meet statutory requirements for Colorado to cut its greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by 26% by 2025, 50% by 2030 and 90% by 2050....
State lawmakers voted to stop a new rule that would let Pennsylvania join a regional program targeting greenhouse gas emissions....
This year’s global climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, came with the usual sense of anticlimax: lots of lofty rhetoric, too little action. But world leaders made at least one meaningful pledge. More than 100 nations, including the United States, committed to reducing methane emissions by 30% by the end of decade....
Pennsylvania regulators have released a long-awaited final draft of rules to cut releases of smog-forming and climate warming air pollution from the state’s existing oil and natural gas well sites, but they will still not require companies to find and fix leaks at tens of thousands of low-producing wells....