How Many Abandoned Oil Wells Threaten Your Favorite National Park?

The LA Times' Boiling Point Newsletter references research by RFF and Columbia University on abandoned oil and gas wells.

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July 1, 2021

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Media Highlight

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The LA Times

"Still, these abandoned wells are a problem worth tackling — and by some estimations, an economic opportunity.

Researchers from Columbia University and the think tank Resources for the Future found last year that the federal government could create as many as 120,000 jobs through a program to plug half a million orphaned wells, potentially keeping oil and gas workers employed as the fossil fuel industry shrinks. Some estimates of the total number of orphaned wells are much higher."

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Daniel Raimi is a fellow and director of the Equity in the Energy Transition Initiative at RFF. He works on a range of energy policy issues with a focus on tools to enable an equitable energy transition.

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