As Congress debates the scale and scope of a national infrastructure package, there is a unique opportunity to enact bipartisan legislation that is good for displaced energy industry workers, the rural economies they support, as well as the 蜜柚APP and wildlife habitat. Congress must advance legislation that address the staggering number of so-called “orphaned” oil and gas wells across the country. There are at least tens of thousands, and perhaps millions, of these wells throughout the United States. Legacies of the boom-and-bust cycles in fossil fuel development date to the earliest oil wells in Pennsylvania and Texas, Generally speaking, orphans are abandoned wells that are no longer in active production but have not been plugged by their operators, many of whom are no longer in business. Many of these wells continually pollute the air and water while leaking methane, a potent greenhouse gas with at least 25 times the heat-trapping power as carbon dioxide, into the...