orphan wells

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania has seen 1,154 oil and gas wells abandoned since 2020. In the past two and a half years, on the other hand, only 308 have be...

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Reps. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., and Chris Deluzio, R-Pa., introduced the Orphan Well Grant Flexibility Act, designed to empower sta...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania has hundreds of thousands of orphan and abandoned gas and oil wells scattered across the state. More state and federal money...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania is pockmarked with orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells. Drilled decades ago, many of them pre-date the first World War,...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A large infusion of federal funds is headed to Pennsylvania to plug orphaned oil and gas wells, an announcement that the state’s en...

HARRISBURG — The Shapiro Administration and the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) announced a new registered apprenticeship program to train worke...

MILWAUKEE — The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public input on four draft environmental assessments evaluating potential impacts from the propos...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania has spent more in recent years on plugging abandoned gas and oil wells, and the state budget will give the effort another bo...

In 1859, the first oil well was drilled in Titusville. That action by Col. Edwin Drake sparked what has become the modern global petroleum industry. S...