"Miss Crystal has been there for me when nobody else has. She's given me hope, inspiration, and somebody to lean on,” Sarah Falk of Oklahoma City talking Crystal Shaffer, her caseworker at the ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Utah was awarded a $5 million federal grant to plug 24 abandoned oil and gas wells on both state and private lands. The Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining (OGM) said plugging ...

Oil well operators are required by law to plug wells once they’re finished using them, in order to prevent leaks. But yet, ...

A Tribune investigation reveals how Fireball evaded its legal responsibility, exposing communities to contaminants and saddling the state with millions in clean-up costs.

OKMULGEE, Okla. (KFOR) — The Well Done Foundation has spent the last year plugging abandoned oil wells, dating back to the early 1900s, in the Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge. Before any of the ...

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OKMULGEE COUNTY, Okla. — A nonprofit organization working to plug abandoned oil wells in Okmulgee County is now offering internship opportunities for people wanting hands-on experience in the oil and ...

A year later, Kentucky's Division of Oil and Gas declared the well an environmental emergency and hired Boots & Coots Inc - the Texas contractor that doused oil-well fires after the Gulf War - to plug ...

An abandoned oil well in Cornplanter State Forest. A group of students at Allderdice High School is trying to raise $5,000 to help the climate by plugging abandoned oil and gas wells. Junior Lucy ...