These Teens Adopted an Orphaned Oil Well. Their Goal: Shut It Down. Students, nonprofit groups and others are fund-raising to cap highly polluting oil and gas wells abandoned by industry.

Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨silence7@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz⁩

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/climate/orphan-wells-capping-methane-leaks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uU0.hWXM.HlITXpT8WPSm

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It’s a serious policy failure that this is happening; the people paying to cap wells should be the ones who became wealthy by extracting the oil, not a bunch of random teenagers.

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ynazuma@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Clearly none are business majors

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