How America’s “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform #Oil Well Cleanup in State After State
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In #NewMexico, oil companies agreed to work with regulators to find a solution to the state’s more than 70,000 unplugged wells. After months of negotiations, the industry turned against the bill it helped shape.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/oil-industry-lobbying-unplugged-wells

The U.S. Oil Industry Has Repeatedly Stifled Efforts to Reform Well Cleanup

In New Mexico, oil companies agreed to work with regulators to find a solution to the state’s more than 70,000 unplugged wells. After months of negotiations, the industry turned against the bill it helped shape.

^ProPublica

Besides giving each other some elbow room & being short--so you can see the landscape--another reason I love piñon juniper (PJ) forests is you see amazing bonsai like growth patterns! Like Kent Frost wrote in "My Canyonlands": "I would hate to live up in the northwest where all them trees are, you can't hardy see the sky because there's so many trees. I'd miss these here great distances when I get out of this country. I'd be lost if I had to live in another place."

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