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An oil pumpjack stands idle near homes in Signal Hill, California,on Feb. 9. Mario Tama/Getty ImagesThis article was originallypublished on ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winninginvestigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter toreceive stories like this one in your inbox. Co-publishedwith LAist and KVPR. For well over a century, theoil and gas industry has drilled holes across California in searchof black gold and a lucrative payday. But with production fallingsteadily, the time has come to clean up many of the nearlyquarter-million wells scattered from downtown Los Angeles towestern Kern County and across the state. The bill for that work,however, will vastly exceed all the industry’s future profits in

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