Neft Daşları, meaning “Oil Rocks,” was the world’s first oil-drilling platform. In recent decades, its population has dwindled, while sections have fallen into disrepair and been claimed by the sea.
More than 30,000 of these so-called orphaned wells dot the landscape of Pennsylvania, where a legacy of oil and gas exploration goes back 150 years. Unless properly managed, they can continue ...
A vote to "keep the law" would have upheld Senate Bill 1137 (SB 1137), which prohibits new oil and gas wells within 3,200 feet of homes, schools, nursing homes, and hospitals and require companies to ...