Nationwide Work Starts to Plug Abandoned Gas and Oil Wells

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EMSWORTH, Pa.—About 30 years ago, Ralph Molenda learned that he had an abandoned gas well leaking under his driveway. The top of the well, it turned out, had been covered decades earlier with a piece of wood and a cast-iron skillet.

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