One scientist studying toxic emissions from the wells called the amount “woefully inadequate” in a state where officials say there are probably 250,000 such abandoned drill sites that need remediation.
The fact that the UK government is even contemplating giving approval for a vast new oil field months before hosting the United Nations’ Cop26 summit is an infuriating example of the Conservatives’ climate hypocrisy.
Millions of acres of Arctic Alaska stand open and available for petroleum exploration, but industry's eyes have been focused for 40 years on the wild, wildlife-rich, 1.5 million-acre coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
