abandoned-wells
Pennsylvania needs to address its abandoned well problem. Here’s how | Opinion
We need substantial steps forward from the incoming Shapiro administration for bonding reform.
Study: Drilling wastewater on Pa. roads dangerous to human health, environment
The state Department of Environmental Protection has not yet acted based on those findings but said that the study’s impact will be “immediate, large and intense.”
Environmental watchdogs petition DCNR to remove access fee on oil & gas well database
“Oil and gas well records should be available to all Pennsylvania's citizens, not just a select few citizens with the ability to pay DCNR's exorbitant charges,” a petition to DCNR Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn reads. “We the undersigned demand DCNR stop charging citizens $5,500.00 to access the EDWIN database.”
Pa. gets $104M from infrastructure law to clean up abandoned wells | Wednesday Morning Coffee
The money is 'one sleeve rolled up' to clean up hundreds of thousands of abandoned wells from the state's boom years, an advocate said.