Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pump jacks line a field where the Railroad Commsion of Texas plugs an orphan well in Luling on Thursday, March 27, 2025.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oil workers pull tubing from an orphan well in a field in Luling on March 27, 2025. Credit: Lorianne Willett/The Texas Tribune ...

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 ...

FILE – Oil well workers prepare to plug an orphaned well on the Rooke family ranch, May 18, 2021, near Refugio, Texas. Abandoned or "orphaned" oil and gas wells can present a significant environmental ...

Many oil and gas wells across Arizona with no known owners leak methane into the environment, which tribal, state and federal agencies are responsible for cleaning up. These wells — referred to as ...