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As firefighters continue to battle more than two dozen active wildfires in California, new research has found that millions of people are living close to oil and gas wells that are in the potential ...

Abandoned oil and gas wells pose environmental and public health risks. For three decades, the state has mismanaged funds earmarked for minimizing the threat.

A new report suggests Illinois could be on the hook for plugging and cleaning up thousands of inactive and abandoned oil and ...

California will accelerate cleanup of the state’s idle oil wells, shut down one low-producing oilfield and allow cities and counties to restrict oil drilling under three measures that Gov. Gavin ...