Deteriorating Oil and Gas Wells Threaten Drinking Water Across the Country
Monday, April 4, 2011 - 14:30
in Earth & Climate
A version of this story was co-published with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In the last 150 years, prospectors and energy companies have drilled as many as 12 million holes across the United States in search of oil and gas. Many of those holes were plugged after they dried up. But hundreds of thousands were simply abandoned and forgotten, often leaving no records of their existence. [More]