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

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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.

Wildfires increasingly threaten oil and gas drill sites, compounding potential health risks, study says retrieved 26 June 2024 from https://phys.org/news/2024-06-wildfires-threaten-oil-gas-drill.html

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