The American public is Facing a potential bill of $280 billion for the cleanup of 2.6 million unplugged oil and gas wells, according to Billion Dollar Orphans, a new report from London-based think tank Carbon Tracker.
While this number is alarming, it does not even include an estimated 1.2 million undocumented orphan oil and gas wells.
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