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Support grows for taxpayer-funded oil well cleanup as an economic stimulus

from Energy News Network

Support grows for taxpayer-funded oil well cleanup as an economic stimulus Energy News Network When the U.S. was fighting to emerge from the Great Depression in the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched ambitious public works projects to put people back on the job. Now, with the country in the midst of another crushing economic slowdown, can cleaning up oil and gas wells fill in as a similar stimulus? That's the question on Capitol Hill, as negotiations are underway to appropriate tax dollars to plug orphan oil and gas wells. READ MORE

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