RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACT. THIS BILL SPEAKS TO THE CONCERNS OF MANY IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA WHO WANT TO KNOW WHERE THE ESTIMATED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ABANDONED WELLS ARE LOCATED. REPRESENTATIVE ...

On a cloudy late-winter morning in 2004, Charles and Dorothy Harper were babysitting their 17-month-old grandson, Baelee, when the furnace in their rural Western Pennsylvania home revved up. The newly ...

Many state lawmakers long ago abandoned their constitutional duty to preserve the environment by instead representing the natural gas industry. Now, a report by the state Department of Environmental ...

THE EFFORTS TO KEEP PEOPLE WHO LIVE NEAR THEM SAFE. PENNSYLVANIA’S DEP SAYS THERE ARE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ABANDONED GAS WELLS AND OIL WELLS ACROSS THE STATE, BUT THERE MAY BE 13 TIMES THAT MANY OUT ...

An abandoned oil well in Cornplanter State Forest. Federal money helped Pennsylvania plug 139 abandoned oil and gas wells last year. That’s more than in the eight years before that. Despite the state ...

Hundreds of thousands of old oil and gas wells are spread across Pennsylvania, and some could be leaking harmful chemicals into the atmosphere and groundwater. This is the warning of research led by ...

40 of 76 “zombie wells” tested in 5 states were leaking. Rancher Laura Briggs rises early to care for the livestock scattered across her homestead on the arid plains of West Texas. Briggs and her ...

Find out more about our Reverse Course series here. As an oil worker and well site supervisor, Druis Trahan has seen a lot of abandoned wells. But each one is a little different. Today's job started ...

Rancher Laura Briggs rises early to care for the livestock scattered across her homestead on the arid plains of West Texas. Briggs and her husband saved up for years to purchase the land and build ...