Aging and abandoned oil wells in West Texas are causing significant environmental damage, public health risks, and financial ...

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March, the sinkhole was roughly 200 feet in diameter and 40 feet deep, big enough to fit a four-story building.

The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian Basin. A sinkhole in Upton County formed around an oil well that was plugged in the ...

Get in touch with Chloe Mayer by emailing [email protected] A 200-foot-wide sinkhole is growing at an alarming rate around an abandoned oil well in Texas, according to the family that owns the ...

An abandoned century-old oil well has wreaked havoc on a remote Texas town and made a family-owned ranch 'unstable.' A gigantic sinkhole has formed around an oil well on the Kelton Ranch in the ...

A sinkhole in Upton County formed around an oil well that was plugged in the 1970s. The property owners and visitors stand on the south side. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News UPTON ...

A federal judge in Louisiana has rejected a bid by three Republican-led states to block a rule adopted during Democratic ...

Credit: State Lands Commission photo The State Lands Commission has finished abandoning two more legacy oil wells on the Summerland coast. These leaking wells in the intertidal zone were remnants ...

The bill would have set deadlines for the oil and gas industry to plug inactive wells, which can pose a danger to the environment. A Texas Senate panel told a fellow Republican lawmaker Wednesday ...