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U.S. Public Facing Huge Bill to Clean Up After Oil and Gas Industry

DeSmogBlog

million unplugged oil and gas wells, according to Billion Dollar Orphans, a new report from London-based think tank Carbon Tracker. Tags: orphan wells abandoned oil wells Carbon orphaned well Read time: 7 mins The American public is facing a potential bill of $280 billion for the cleanup of 2.6

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Exxon and Other US Oil Companies Lag in Responding to ‘Existential Threat’ of Energy Transition, Report Warns

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oil majors like Exxon and Chevron are failing to grapple with the energy sector’s transition away from polluting fossil fuels and refusing to disclose potential risks to their portfolios from assets that may become “stranded,” or uneconomical to develop, in a low-carbon world, new research from the London-based think tank Carbon Tracker shows.

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With Bankruptcies Mounting, Faltering Oil and Gas Firms Are Leaving a Multi-billion Dollar Cleanup Bill to the Public

DeSmogBlog

Tags: fracking Bankruptcy carbon tracker Lynn Helms Halcón Resources

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Making sense of the alphabet soup: the common themes across carbon credit integrity guidance

EDF + Business

By Jordan Faires and Pedro Barata A year ago, the voluntary carbon market was craving guidance on quality and integrity. There was no public, unified guidance to show carbon credit programs or companies what carbon credits were good, what was junk, and what lay in between. in the voluntary carbon market.

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