A view of the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Belle Vernon, visible from a strip mall parking lot. How much toxic oil and gas waste is produced in Pennsylvania every year, and where does it end up?

A knee-high pipe sticking out of the ground not far from a school. A gurgle in a pond on rolling farmland. A patch of forest undergrowth hiding a long-forgotten, leaking oil well. Relics like these ...

Diversified Energy abandoned a Pennsylvania natural gas well and crypto mining operation after roughly two years, violating state law, regulators say. The company, which uses cryptocurrency mining to ...

Pennsylvania is the nation’s second-largest natural gas producer, yet the commonwealth does not provide sufficient resources to its Department of Environmental Protection to properly regulate this ...

Researchers surveyed 18 abandoned wells, like this one, and found that they not only leak natural gases that contaminate the atmosphere but also release methane into the adjoining water table. Some of ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro joined Penn Mechanical Group and local leaders in Washington County to plug the 300th orphaned or abandoned well under his administration. As Pennsylvania celebrates plugging 300 ...

How much toxic oil and gas waste is produced in Pennsylvania every year, and where does it end up? Despite state efforts to track it, there’s no way to know for sure. For more than a decade, ...