Wildfires increasingly threaten oil and gas drill sites, compounding potential health risks

ScienceDaily
Jun 25, 2024, 8:56 pm180 pts
More than 100,000 oil and gas wells across the western U.S. are in areas burned by wildfires in recent decades, a new study has found, and some 3 million people live next to wells that in the future could be in the path of fires worsened by climate change.

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