24 states get $560M for high-priority cleanup of wells
2 years, 3 months ago

24 states get $560M for high-priority cleanup of wells

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — The Interior Department is giving 24 states a total of $560 million to start cleaning high-priority derelict oil and gas wells abandoned on state and private land, the department said Thursday. It said up to 10,000 wells could be dealt with as the government begins allocating $4.7 billion set aside to create an orphan well cleanup program under the bipartisan infrastructure plan approved late last year. The infrastructure law “is enabling us to confront long-standing environmental injustices by making a historic investment to plug orphaned wells throughout the country,” Secretary Deb Haaland said in a news release. The department said states have identified more than 129,000 orphaned wells on state and private land.

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California’s effort to plug abandoned, chemical-spewing oil wells gets $35-million boost
7 months ago

California’s effort to plug abandoned, chemical-spewing oil wells gets $35-million boost

LA Times  

California will receive more than $35 million in federal funding to help address the scourge of abandoned oil wells that are leaking dangerous chemicals and planet-warming methane in areas across the state, including many in Los Angeles. The investment from the Biden-Harris administration is among the “largest ever in American history to address legacy pollution,” U.S. Secretary of the Interior …

State and US officials tout spending to plug ‘orphan wells’
1 year, 9 months ago

State and US officials tout spending to plug ‘orphan wells’

Associated Press  

ATCHAFALAYA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, La. — Stacks of valves, networks of pipes and hulking, two-story-tall tanks litter parts of the swampy landscape of Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin, rusting relics of sites where oil wells were drilled in the 1970s, an unwanted legacy of the energy industry that has long helped drive the Louisiana economy. Administration officials joined their state counterparts in …

Infrastructure plan: $33M to clean up hundreds of oil wells
2 years, 6 months ago

Infrastructure plan: $33M to clean up hundreds of oil wells

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — About $33 million of the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan recently signed into law by President Joe Biden will go toward cleanning up 277 of an estimated 15,000 abandoned oil and gas wells on federal land, the nation’s interior secretary said Wednesday. “Millions of Americans live within one mile of an abandoned oil or gas well,” Interior …

Interior Department approves $1B to clean up abandoned wells
2 years, 10 months ago

Interior Department approves $1B to clean up abandoned wells

Associated Press  

The Department of Interior is spending $1.15 billion to cap abandoned oil and gas wells across the United States. “In addition to creating immediate jobs addressing the pollution, these investments will build a foundation for future job growth once sites are cleaned up.” Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oklahoma and California — states an Associated Press examination found have among the most …

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