Maria Burns watched with satisfaction as a three-story-high drilling rig made a racket in her front yard. Normally, the loudest thing on this residential street in Ashland, Ohio, would be the barking ...

The billions of dollars approved by Congress to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells have been frozen as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to government spending, creating concerns that ...

When it comes to environmental responsibility, New Mexico’s oil and gas industry is not just stepping up — we’re leading the way. In recent years, oil and gas operators plugged over 90% of the wells ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An abandoned wellhead in the oil field. The well is not producing anymore. There are more than 21,000 abandoned and orphaned wells ...

Researchers at Iowa State University have discovered a unique and environmentally friendly solution of utilizing crop waste to seal abandoned oil wells and capture carbon by permanently sequestering ...

Colorado’s Energy and Carbon Management Commission recently announced that 33 oil and gas well operators would receive grant funding to cover the costs of plugging marginal natural gas wells, which ...