There was a circle in Maria Burns' yard where grass wouldn't grow and trees died. She knew what it was: An old natural gas ...

There could be about a million 'orphan' oil and gas wells across the U.S. As they age, they can leak greenhouse gases or ...

An 82-year-old oil well that broke loose last month and spewed oily water into the fragile coastal marsh of Plaquemines Parish will be permanently shut and sealed off, the owner-operator said ...

An oil leak caused by an over 8-year-old-well spewed into a Louisiana marshland for a week. Responders are now beginning the cleanup.

SkyTruth, which uses satellite imagery and other technology to identify environmental problems, has produced imagery showing what it says are oil slicks tens of miles or more from the well.

Absorbent bales can be seen around marsh islands and shores. A mix of oil, gas and water is spewing from an 82-year-old oil well near Garden Island Bay in southern Plaquemines Parish.

The oil well blowout in Weld County, Colorado this month was caused by a failure of the well’s internal safety systems, a state agency says.

The Bishop well near Galeton in Northern Colorado. CBS Officials say that the emergency response—including evacuations and school closures—was enacted out of an abundance of caution.

An abandoned West Texas oil well has created a 200-foot-wide sinkhole The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian Basin.

A sinkhole around an old oil well is growing at an alarming rate on the Kelton Ranch in West Texas.

UPTON COUNTY, Texas—A sinkhole around an old oil well is growing at an alarming rate on the Kelton Ranch in West Texas. Radford Grocery #17 was originally drilled as an oil well in the 1950s and ...