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The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that there are approximately 4 million abandoned oil and gas wells in the United States, and more than 117,000 of.
Alberta owns a new record. The province is home to an abandoned and unplugged gas well that leaks methane, an explosive greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere at the highest rate ever recorded in North America.