abandoned-wells

COMMENTARY

Pennsylvania needs to address its abandoned well problem. Here’s how | Opinion  

BY: - November 17, 2022

We need substantial steps forward from the incoming Shapiro administration for bonding reform.

Study: Drilling wastewater on Pa. roads dangerous to human health, environment

BY: - August 5, 2022

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

BY: - July 24, 2022

“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.”

COMMENTARY

Pa. gets $104M from infrastructure law to clean up abandoned wells | Wednesday Morning Coffee

BY: - February 2, 2022

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.