A pair of abandoned oil wells that were leaking into a lake at an Ottawa County park have been cleaned out and capped off.

Two years after lawmakers created a $10 million program to address leaking wells in rural counties, none of the money has ...

Despite efforts to mitigate the issue, two additional oil seeps were discovered in January 2025 along a bedrock outcropping ...

The confirmation comes as residents of Washington Crossing in Upper Makefield have reported their water smelled like gas.

GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Two leaking oil wells from the 1940s have been plugged to prevent further oil spills into an Ottawa County lake. After responding to a kayaker's tip in April 2023 ...

Wildcatters searching for oil have punched thousands of holes ... which created the Leaking Water Wells Grant Program under the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and committed $10 million ...

Texas Regulators Grapple With a Growing Problem: Old Oil Wells Leaking Polluted Water In arid West Texas, water seeps and bubbles from old wells, sometimes carrying oil, brackish water or other ...

Hawk Dunlap stands at the site of Lake Boehmer, a brine lake that has leaked out of an old well in Pecos County. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality received $10 million from lawmakers ...