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A new model for plugging old oil wells

In late September, the Montana-based Well Done Foundation plugged its first orphan oil well in Pennsylvania: a 19th-century relic in McKean County that last produced oil in the mid-1970s and has been leaking methane, a potent greenhouse gas, equivalent to driving 1,440 cars for 10 years.

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