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Oklahoma’s oil industry pays into a voluntary fund to clean up oil wells, but many drillers opt out.
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Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 6 Aug. 2024
The researchers examined active and inactive oil wells because some inactive wells continue to leak methane and other harmful or combustible emissions, González said.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2024
Last Friday and Saturday, the South turned off the spigot, shutting down 900 oil wells.
—Andrew Natsios, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2012
Oil companies should stop oil well emissions California’s 40,000 idle oil and gas wells, and 60,000 active wells, leak toxic chemicals like cancer-causing benzene and climate-heating methane, a greenhouse gas containing 80 times the climate-warming power of carbon dioxide.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
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Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 6 Aug. 2024
The researchers examined active and inactive oil wells because some inactive wells continue to leak methane and other harmful or combustible emissions, González said.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2024
Last Friday and Saturday, the South turned off the spigot, shutting down 900 oil wells.
—Andrew Natsios, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2012
Oil companies should stop oil well emissions California’s 40,000 idle oil and gas wells, and 60,000 active wells, leak toxic chemicals like cancer-causing benzene and climate-heating methane, a greenhouse gas containing 80 times the climate-warming power of carbon dioxide.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
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“Oil well.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oil%20well. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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