…abandoned oil wells
Abandoned oil wells pose a threat to groundwater and emit methane. The question of how best to handle their cleanup is an issue that lots of states are just beginning to handle. At the national level, there are an estimated 2,500 inactive wells on federal lands managed by the Park Service, of which 93 are orphaned abandoned wells. Of those, 70 are currently leaking methane. Anyway, there was one guy left working on it for the Parks Service to plug the wells with cement, and his contract was not renewed last month.
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