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Tennessee has 300 leaky, ‘orphaned’ oil and gas wells. A handful are about to be plugged for safety.Abandoned gas wells — essentially deep holes in Earth’s crust that slowly spit out methane — will soon be capped in one of Tennessee’s federally-protected lands.
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Kentucky will receive nearly $104 million from the federal infrastructure act passed last year to clean up orphan oil and gas wells.
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A new study of abandoned oil and gas wells found Kentucky has among the highest number of documented so-called orphan wells in the country.
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In Central Appalachia an estimated 538,000 unplugged oil and gas wells and 853,393 acres of abandoned mine lands sit unreclaimed, often polluting the air…
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The latest boom in natural gas is transforming the Ohio Valley’s energy landscape. But over the years the industry has also abandoned thousands of oil and…