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.
Strategic Partnerships 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
Strategic Partnerships 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