- Will taxpayers bear the cost of cleaning up America’s abandoned oil wells? New proposals to plug abandoned oil and gas wells amount to huge subsidy for the fossil fuel industry. Millions of wells sit untended across the US, leaking toxins along with the potent greenhouse gas methane. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/21/infrastructure-bill-taxpayers-oil-cleanup-costs 75 comments energy
- Will taxpayers bear the cost of cleaning up America’s abandoned oil wells? Policy experts warn new proposals to plug abandoned oil and gas wells amount to huge subsidy for the fossil fuel industry. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/21/infrastructure-bill-taxpayers-oil-cleanup-costs 7 comments environment
- ‘A bill for the bosses’: infrastructure bill sticks taxpayers with oil cleanup costs https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/21/infrastructure-bill-taxpayers-oil-cleanup-costs 7 comments politics
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- Taxpayers may have to pay $280 billion in onshore plugging costs for oil and gas wells - Carbon Tracker Initiative https://carbontracker.org/taxpayers-may-have-to-pay-280-billion-in-onshore-plugging-costs-for-oil-and-gas-wells/ 81 comments
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