Missouri is preparing to cap and remove 238 abandoned oil wells, almost all of them in Vernon County. Chris Wood is the Oil and Gas Unit Chief with the Department of Natural Resources. “We’ll go through, and we will plug those wells and we will remove all the...
The U.S. Department of Interior awarded nearly $5 million to Missouri to clean up legacy pollution. The materials are made up of things such as heavy metals that pollute the environment long after the industrial or extraction methods that produced them. The funds will...
