The Sierra Club, joined by five other organizations, is prompting the Environmental Quality Board to make oil and gas companies pay bonds equal to the full cost of decommissioning their wells.
Proposals to fund plugging of abandoned old oil and gas wells are gaining support across the U.S. as a way to restore jobs for oil workers displaced during the pandemic-driven price crash.
A network of wells, tanks, pipelines, pump houses and roads cut into the Allegheny National Forest in Elk County to harvest $350 million worth of oil. What worries state and federal environmental regulators isn't the project's growth but its death.
