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Restoring land around abandoned oil and gas wells would free up millions of acres of forests, farmlands and grasslands

  • Written by Matthew D. Moran, Professor of Biology, Hendrix College
imageA drilling pad for oil and gas in Robinson Township, Penn.Robert Nickelsberg/Getty ImagesimageCC BY-ND

President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan proposes to spend US$16 billion plugging old oil and gas wells and cleaning up abandoned mines. But there’s no authoritative measure of how many of these sites exist across the nation.

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