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Taxpayers could be on the hook for millions in cleanup costs from oil and gas wells
Tens of thousands of inactive wells emit pollutants and pose cleanup costs exceeding $1 billion, with weak regulations shifting liabilities to Illinois taxpayers, a new report finds.
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Taxpayers could be on the hook for millions in cleanup costs from oil and gas wells
A new report suggests Illinois could be on the hook for plugging and cleaning up thousands of inactive and abandoned oil and gas wells scattered across the state.Oil production was once a major industry in Illinois, but it has steadily…
Taxpayers could be on the hook for millions in cleanup costs from oil and gas wells – Capitol News IL
A new report suggests those pumpjacks — and the inactive oil and gas wells that lie below them — are more than just relics of a bygone industry. They also could be environmental time bombs lurking underground, threatening to expose Illinois taxpayers to more than $1 billion in future clean-up costs.
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