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The U.S. Department of the Interior awarded Oklahoma an initial $25 million to help address legacy pollution caused by orphaned oil and gas wells left abandoned across the state.
The U.S. Department of the Interior awarded Oklahoma an initial $25 million to help address legacy pollution caused by orphaned oil and gas wells left abandoned across the state.
There are an estimated 15,000 abandoned wells on federal land and states have indicated that they would need more than $8 billion to clean up 130,000 other orphaned wells.