Pennsylvania is set to get an influx of federal infrastructure money to plug abandoned oil and gas wells. The commonwealth is eligible for $104 million from the new program in its first phase, more than any other state except Texas....
State lawmakers voted to stop a new rule that would let Pennsylvania join a regional program targeting greenhouse gas emissions....
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....
Environmental groups are launching a new effort to hold Gov. Tom Wolf accountable to his earlier promises to cut methane emissions in the oil and gas industry....
An estimated 2 million abandoned oil and gas wells across the country, forgotten or ignored by the energy companies that drilled them, are believed to be leaking toxic chemicals. Many of the wells are releasing methane, a greenhouse gas containing about 86 times the climate-warming power of carbon dioxide over two decades. Some are leaking chemicals such as benzene, a known carcinogen, into fields and groundwater....
Alabama company has until 2033 to plug wells or put them back into production. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced it reached an agreement with an Alabama company over the costs of plugging 1,400 abandoned conventional oil and gas wells in the state....
PITTSBURGH — There's a hidden danger under thousands of properties in Pennsylvania: abandoned oil wells....
State environmental officials have ordered three companies to plug more than 1,000 abandoned oil and gas wells....
Pennsylvania has more abandoned oil and gas wells than previously thought, and some are leaking large amounts of climate-damaging methane gas, according to a new study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....
There are probably around 200,000 abandoned oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania. We know where just a slim fraction – probably four percent – of these wells are....