PA DEP Wants to Study Health Effects of Living Near Abandoned Wells

The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) wants to spend some of the $214+ million it's receiving from the federal government's Phase 1 & 2 program to plug orphaned conventional oil and gas wells on a research project to determine the potential health impacts of living near such wells. You may recall the flawed (totally fake) "research" conducted by the University of Pittsburgh in 2023 that purported to show a connection between shale drilling and childhood cancer clusters (see Pitt Releases Fake Research, Claims PA Fracking Linked to Kid Cancer). The DEP wants to conduct another research study, this one of people living close to conventional (not shale) wells that may or may not leak methane. The DEP is asking the feds if some of the multi-millions of taxpayer money coming to the state can be spent on research.

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