{"id":4786,"date":"2022-07-25T16:26:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T16:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2022-07-25T16:56:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T16:56:17","slug":"lawsuit-alleges-diversified-and-eqt-played-hot-potato-with-abandoned-oil-and-gas-well-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/lawsuit-alleges-diversified-and-eqt-played-hot-potato-with-abandoned-oil-and-gas-well-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit alleges Diversified and EQT played hot potato with abandoned oil and gas well responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Anya Litvak, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, July 25, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Abandoned oil and gas wells are having a moment \u2014 as global warming agitators, public safety hazards and targets of more than $1 billion in federal funding that seeks to correct for decades of companies walking away from their deteriorating wells.<\/p>\n<p>One of the companies vying for a chunk of that federal money is Diversified Energy Co., a company that owns more than 62,000 old wells, many of them inactive or abandoned across Appalachia.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, a group of West Virginia landowners filed a proposed class-action lawsuit suggesting Diversified isn\u2019t part of the solution but is instead the area\u2019s main problem.<\/p>\n<p>The company has the largest collection of unplugged old wells, and its business plan relies on not having to plug most of them in the next few decades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/business\/powersource\/2022\/07\/25\/diversified-eqt-lawsuit-abandoned-deteriorating-wells-oil-gas\/stories\/202207240048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abandoned oil and gas wells are having a moment \u2014 as global warming agitators, public safety hazards and targets of more than $1 billion in federal funding that seeks to correct for decades of companies walking away from their deteriorating wells. Earlier this month, a group of West Virginia landowners filed a proposed class-action lawsuit suggesting Diversified isn\u2019t part of the solution but is instead the area\u2019s main problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":4788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fossil-fuels","category-pa_pgh_news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}