Same Sob Story – PA DEP Says Not Enough Staff to Handle Plugging

On Monday, Jan. 31, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced PA had been awarded its initial allocation of $25 million, and will receive a total of $104 million, from Biden’s so-called Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to plug orphaned and abandoned wells in the state (see PA Receives First $25M (Out of $104M) to Plug Orphaned Wells). There are companies in the state ready to get to work plugging old wells. Just one small problem: The state Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP), the agency that will oversee the activity, is (once again) crying it doesn't have enough people (lack of funds to hire) to manage the program to plug the wells.

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