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What ‘aggressive’ well-plugging Texas can teach oil-producing states like New Mexico 

By Elliott Woods, Capital & Main After a century and a half of oil and gas production in the United States, the nonprofit environmental watchdog Climate Tracker published a sobering report in 2020: Some 2.6 million unplugged onshore wells lay scattered across the country. Plugging all those derelict holes, from the rocky Appalachian hill country of western […]