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Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Endangering Pennsylvania Forests

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ten thousand acres of Pennsylvania’s only national forest have given way, tree by tree, over the last 70 years to an oil drilling operation unique in its scope in the northeastern United States. A network of wells, …

Records Reveal Inspection Lapse at California Oil and Gas Wells

Federal officials in charge of overseeing the drilling of new oil wells on public land in California let three years pass without inspecting some high-priority sites, according to public records. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management records say 31 of …