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[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/28/colorado-oil-gas-well-cleanup

Colorado oil and gas wells can’t fund their own cleanup. Taxpayers may foot the bill. A Carbon Tracker report shows the cost to safely shut down low-producing wells is $3bn more than what they earn. The efforts in the US to make mine owners pay the cost of closing up and cleaning up a mine has been haphazard and half-hearted, and mines have continued to cheat the public by dumping these costs …

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