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Oil Industry Downturn Leaves States With Massive Well Cleanup Costs

The worst oil bust since the 1980s is putting Texas and other oil producing states on the hook for thousands of newly abandoned drilling sites at a time when they have little money to plug wells and seal off environmental …

Less Than 100 Inspectors to Oversee 100K New Mexico Wells

The number of oil and gas wells is steadily increasing in New Mexico, but there are still fewer than 100 state and federal inspectors to watch over them. The Bureau of Land Management and the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division …