June 27, 2025 | 12:48 PM
tag | Abandoned wells
July 31, 2024 | 5:31 PM
Pa. legislators passed a lot of new laws with the budget. Here’s what’s happening with environmental policy.
Here’s a round-up of environmental items that passed in the last month as lawmakers negotiated the state budget.
April 30, 2024 | 10:17 AM
U.S. House set to vote on Pa. Rep. Summer Lee’s measure to address abandoned gas and oil wells
February 26, 2024 | 10:15 AM
Federal money has supercharged Pa.’s plugging of dangerous wells, but critics want more oversight
There are thousands of abandoned wells in Pennsylvania that leak a powerful greenhouse gas. Environmentalists say the state needs to do more to target the worst ones.
February 23, 2024 | 3:34 PM
Pa. gains new abandoned gas wells as it sets records capping old ones
The state awarded more than $23 million in contracts to plug wells in 2023.
Updated: October 19, 2023 | 11:12 am
100 plugged and 300,000+ to go; Abandoned well cleanup effort jumps with federal money
Shapiro celebrated the 100th well plugged this year at a state park in Washington County on Wednesday.
May 30, 2023 | 11:01 AM
Pa. advocates say more scrutiny needed over well-plugging money
Pennsylvania has upwards of 200,000 estimated orphan and abandoned wells.
Updated: May 24, 2023 | 9:24 am
Pa. limited a board’s power to regulate abandoned oil and gas wells. Democrats want to restore it.
The state House panel passed a bill Tuesday that would restore the Environmental Quality Board’s ability to raise bond prices on conventional well drillers.
