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Wild West: Orphan Wells and the Health of West Texas Aquifers
Jan 27, 2022
Change is inevitable. In West Texas, a region with a long history of energy production and home to the most productive oil field in the U.S., invisible subsurface changes have led to drastic impacts on the land and water....
Tags: Orphan Wells | Texas
Permian Pollution
Jan 25, 2022
Over 30 oil and gas facilities in the Permian Basin (Texas and New Mexico) – well pads, pipelines, compressor stations and processing facilities – were observed “persistently” emitting large volumes of methane over three years of aerial surveys carried out by the Environmental Defense Fund and Carbon Mapper....
Tags: New Mexico | Texas