Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Right now, there are over 1 million unplugged or abandoned oil and gas wells across the U.S., according to the Environmental ...

An oil well extracts light sweet crude from the ground beneath newly imported cars at the Port of Long Beach. Photo: David McNew (Getty Images) At the corner of West Pico Blvd. and South Genesee Ave.

For most, Los Angeles conjures images of a city of beaches, palm trees, and movie stars. Few realize LA County is also one of the largest oil-producing regions in the United States. But it is. Oil ...

Abandoned wells are the unwanted legacy of 150 years of drilling booms and busts. Now those old wells pose a new danger as the country rides another petroleum boom driven by hydraulic fracturing ...