Oil workers pull tubing from an orphan well in a field in Luling on March 27, 2025. Credit: Lorianne Willett/The Texas Tribune LULING — Just six minutes from 5,700-person town’s historic city center, ...

Maria Burns watched with satisfaction as a three-story-high drilling rig made a racket in her front yard. Normally, the loudest thing on this residential street in Ashland, Ohio, would be the barking ...

The billions of dollars approved by Congress to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells have been frozen as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to government spending, creating concerns that ...

When it comes to environmental responsibility, New Mexico’s oil and gas industry is not just stepping up — we’re leading the way. In recent years, oil and gas operators plugged over 90% of the wells ...

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Hawk Dunlap stands at the site of Lake Boehmer, a brine lake that has leaked out of an old well in Pecos County. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality received $10 million from lawmakers in ...

A bill that aims to address growing numbers of uncapped oil and gas wells is expected to become law after clearing the Texas Legislature on Monday. Senate Bill 1150, authored by state Sen. Mayes ...

Researchers at Iowa State University have discovered a unique and environmentally friendly solution of utilizing crop waste to seal abandoned oil wells and capture carbon by permanently sequestering ...

Abandoned oil and gas wells pose environmental and public health risks. For three decades, the state has mismanaged funds earmarked for minimizing the threat.