These Teens Adopted an Orphaned Oil Well. Their Goal: Shut It Down.
www.nytimes.com
Students, nonprofit groups and others are fund-raising to cap highly polluting oil and gas wells abandoned by industry.

It’s a serious policy failure that this is happening; the people paying to cap wells should be the ones who became wealthy by extracting the oil, not a bunch of random teenagers.

  • lettruthout@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    And…

    “We’re the cleanup crew for a party we were too young to attend.” - Kevin Gilbert, from a song on the album Thud