[Themaintainers] Abandoned Oil Wells in Texas and New Mexico

[Joshua Braun]

Hi Maintainers,

Grist recently published a phenomenal investigative piece on unmaintained oil wells in Texas and New Mexico, in which they combined shoeleather reporting with data journalism techniques to explore the pernicious problems that this lack of maintenance has created, as well as develop a statistical model of the overwhelming projected cleanup costs to be borne by the states.

The whole thing is worth a look:

https://grist.org/abandoned-oil-gas-wells-permian-texas-new-mexico/

Cheers,
Josh

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