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APEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentNewsPennsylvaniaPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectJudge’s connection to driller at issue in Pa. pollution case
-The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office indicated it might seek removal of a judge expected to preside over a criminal case in which he has ties to the defendant — the state’s biggest gas driller.
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Will taxpayers bear the cost of cleaning up America’s abandoned oil wells?
-Oil and gas companies have a century-old bad habit of drilling wells and ditching them. And while Congress finally has a plan to plug some abandoned wells, new proposals effectively pass the fossil fuel industry’s cleanup costs on to taxpayers and may even enable more drilling.
