Abandoned coal mine drainage identified as a significant source of carbon emissions

For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has ...

He Alone Tracked Leaky Oil Wells in National Parks. He Was Let Go.

Forrest Smith was forced to step down last month as the National Park Service’s chief petroleum engineer. He wasn’t replaced.

Hundreds of ‘zombie’ wells likely plague a single Texas county, University of Houston study finds

Thousands of dormant oil wells dot the Texas landscape, and the number of leaking wells is unknown. A University of Houston ...
Grist

Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it.

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from Oklahoma oil wells.

EVENT: Legacy Texas oil wells are leaking toxic waste. Who pays to clean them up?

Leaking oil wells threaten Texas water and taxpayer wallets. Join us November 20 at 12 p.m. for a live virtual event on who’s ...
The Cool Down

Scientists discover way to plug thousands of hazardous wells with corn: 'Meeting an urgent demand'

Scientists at Iowa State University have found a cost-effective way to both fill abandoned oil and gas wells and reduce ...