Elliott Woods

Sep 6, 2024 | capitalandmain.com | Elliott Woods

Month after month, the weather reports in Texas this year have been harrowing — deadly heat waves across the state, record-breaking wildfires in the panhandle that burned a million acres of grasslands, a hurricane that killed 26 people and left thousands without electricity, a tropical storm that dumped 10 inches of rain and caused severe flooding, another that packed 100 mph winds, yet another that lobbed golf ball-sized hail in Houston and a tornado in north Texas that killed seven and left...

Jun 3, 2024 | newspub.live | Elliott Woods

By Elliott Woods, Capital & MainAfter a century and a half of oil and gas production in the United States, the nonprofit environmental watchdog Climate Tracker published a sobering report in 2020: Some 2.6 million unplugged onshore wells lay scattered across the country. Plugging all those derelict holes, from the rocky Appalachian hill country of western Pennsylvania to the dry plains of West Texas and the tundra of Alaska, and countless points between, might cost as much as $280 billion.

Jun 3, 2024 | texastribune.org | Elliott Woods

Key coverage Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. After a century and a half of oil and gas production in the United States, the nonprofit environmental watchdog Climate Tracker published a sobering report in 2020: Some 2.6 million unplugged onshore wells lay scattered across the country.

Jun 3, 2024 | nmpoliticalreport.com | Elliott Woods

By Elliott Woods, Capital & Main After a century and a half of oil and gas production in the United States, the nonprofit environmental watchdog Climate Tracker published a sobering report in 2020: Some 2.6 million unplugged onshore wells lay scattered across the country.

May 30, 2024 | capitalandmain.com | Elliott Woods

After a century and a half of oil and gas production in the United States, the nonprofit environmental watchdog Climate Tracker published a sobering report in 2020: Some 2.6 million unplugged onshore wells lay scattered across the country. Plugging all those derelict holes, from the rocky Appalachian hill country of western Pennsylvania to the dry plains of West Texas and the tundra of Alaska, and countless points between, might cost as much as $280 billion.