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Oil companies should stop oil well emissions California’s 40,000 idle oil and gas wells, and 60,000 active wells, leak toxic chemicals like cancer-causing benzene and climate-heating methane, a greenhouse gas containing 80 times the climate-warming power of carbon dioxide.
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Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
As oil wells in the Permian also produce increasing amounts of gas, there is more gas being produced there than customers willing to buy it.
—Justin Mikulka, Scientific American, 15 July 2024
Climate & Environment Deserted oil wells haunt Los Angeles with toxic fumes and enormous cleanup costs
March 6, 2020
There are solutions, however — or at least recommendations to help mitigate the risks of oil wells in populated, wildfire-prone regions.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2024
Most recently, as coalition troops have closed in on their last Iraqi holdings in Mosul, the jihadists torched dozens of oil wells at Qayyarah, to the south of the city.
—Peter Schwartzstein, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2017
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Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
As oil wells in the Permian also produce increasing amounts of gas, there is more gas being produced there than customers willing to buy it.
—Justin Mikulka, Scientific American, 15 July 2024
Climate & Environment Deserted oil wells haunt Los Angeles with toxic fumes and enormous cleanup costs
March 6, 2020
There are solutions, however — or at least recommendations to help mitigate the risks of oil wells in populated, wildfire-prone regions.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2024
Most recently, as coalition troops have closed in on their last Iraqi holdings in Mosul, the jihadists torched dozens of oil wells at Qayyarah, to the south of the city.
—Peter Schwartzstein, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2017
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“Oil well.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oil%20well. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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