Montana’s first oil well was drilled in what is now Glacier National Park near the head of Kintla Lake back in 1901. One hundred and twenty-five years later, Glacier will have the well plugged.

Researchers at Iowa State University have discovered a unique and environmentally friendly solution of utilizing crop waste to seal abandoned oil wells and capture carbon by permanently sequestering ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ohio (WTAP) - The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has released an updated statement regarding the orphan well explosion from Monday. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources ...

Mikeal Berthelot, Jr., was navigating the mouth of the Mississippi River in his shrimp boat, a stretch of water he’d traversed many times before. The water was calm. The sun beat down. His deckhand ...

When oil infrastructure burns, the damage doesn't stop at the battlefield — here's what the science and history tell us.

Hundreds of thousands of old oil and gas wells are spread across Pennsylvania, and some could be leaking harmful chemicals into the atmosphere and groundwater. This is the warning of research led by ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. The Trump administration is suing California over a law preventing new oil and gas wells from being located too close to schools, homes and ...

LOS ANGELES — More than 1,000 oil and gas operators violated a recent California law aimed at cleaning up the state’s idle wells, which pose a threat to the environment, air quality and public health, ...