orphaned oil and gas wells

Brady Pieper

Interior Department making $1.5B available to plug nation’s orphaned oil wells, seeking public comment

These grants will be used to plug, remediate and reclaim orphaned well sites on state-owned or private land.

Gracie Warhurst

Feds make $127 million available to clean legacy pollution sites

Funds come from $660 million in rolling formula grant funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

Gracie Warhurst

Texas receives $80 million to plug orphaned oil, gas wells

State is first of 26 slated to receive total of $660 million to clean up legacy pollution