PPH – Hear from Megan Miliken Biven about how cleaning up abandoned wells means employing abandoned workers

Righting the wrongs of Louisiana’s energy past requires some serious clean-up that will require workers who are experienced in the oil fields. This effort could be a first step toward a just transition.

Host Logan Burke interviews Megan Miliken Biven about ​a brilliant idea she’s been cultivating. Megan has developed a proposal to put thousands of Americans who have been abandoned by the oil and gas industry back to work to identify and cap millions of abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells, many of which are emitting methane at an alarming rate.

Read Megan’s proposal, The Abandoned Well Act of 2021, and check out Megan’s article from Current Affairs that delves into the history of the problem and solution.

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