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January 12, 2022
A Forgotten Oil Well Births a 100-Foot Geyser in West Texas
In the flatness of the southern half of Crane County, where a clump of mesquite trees can ...
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March 7, 2019
Explosions from unregulated pipelines can kill in Texas while energy companies go unpunished
People can die when small rural pipelines called "gathering lines" explode. But after deca...
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February 1, 2022
Federal money on the way to cap Colorado’s hazardous, abandoned oil and gas wells
Texas has a serious problem with orphaned wells and while the state might not have a plan...
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July 29, 2021
Forgotten oil and gas wells linger, leaking toxic chemicals
But something eerie is going on beneath the land, where Watt once played among the mesquit...
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September 17, 2020
Gas Companies Are Abandoning Their Wells, Leaving Them to Leak Methane Forever
In the past five years, 207 oil and gas businesses have failed. As natural gas prices crat...
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April 5, 2021
One Researcher’s Quest To Quantify The Environmental Cost Of Abandoned Oil Wells
Amy Townsend-Small has been chasing methane her entire professional life. The quest has ta...
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April 25, 2012
Orphans of the Oil Fields: The Cost of Abandoned Wells
Scattered across the oil and gas fields of Texas where fortunes have been won and sometime...
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February 4, 2022
TEXAS TO RECEIVE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ORPHAN WELLS
Texas has a serious problem with orphaned wells and while the state might not have a plan...