Pennsylvania just celebrated the plugging of its 300th orphaned oil or gas well. Plugging these wells is an important way to make progress on both global warming and air pollution because they have the potential to leak the potent climate pollutant methane plus toxic chemicals, like benzene, that put people’s health at risk.
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