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