Millions of abandoned oil and gas wells in the US pose a serious environmental and public health risk. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law allocates $4.7 billion to address the issue, but the estimated ...

The U.S. has millions of abandoned and orphaned oil wells, posing significant environmental and public health risks, including water pollution and methane emissions. Orphaned wells, whose operators ...

America is dotted with old oil wells that are no longer producing, but have never been plugged. In a prairie in Oklahoma, between bison and brush fires, a pipe sticking out from the ground is one tiny ...

Wells Fargo’s stock rose more than 7% at times Thursday afternoon following the resolution of a consent order placed on the bank for opening fake accounts in the past, after regulators determined ...

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 ...

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After more than a century of pulling carbon from underground, a rush is underway to pump it back down. Companies have applied for scores of permits across the country to inject carbon dioxide deep ...

Every year since 2016, Jeremy Kress began his banking law class at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business by putting up a picture of John Stumpf and asking students if they knew who he ...

Over the past several years, California’s water managers have seen a pattern emerge in farming areas of the Central Valley: Even as declining groundwater levels have left thousands of residents with ...

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 ...

Mikeal Berthelot, Jr., was navigating the mouth of the Mississippi River in his shrimp boat, a stretch of water he’d traversed many times before. The water was calm. The sun beat down. His deckhand ...