ABC News correspondent Kayna Whitworth approaches the source of Lake Boehmer, a leaking abandoned well that has formed a 60 acre toxic body of water in West Texas. Just a few miles from Briggs ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Leaking water wells are causing problems for some West Texas lakes, and Sen. César J. Blanco is working to ...

Recent accidents in Tamil Nadu have raised concerns about unfenced quarries, wells, and dangerous road stretches.

He pointed to examples in California related to the injection of steam for oil recovery, and in Pennsylvania, where water from old coal mines has flowed through abandoned oil wells to the surface.

OCONEE COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - You could be living on top of a danger in South Carolina and not even realize it - something some Upstate families have learned the hard way. Abandoned water ...

In arid West Texas, water seeps and bubbles from old wells, sometimes carrying oil, brackish water or other pollutants to the surface. But the real danger lies underground — where oil ...

It’s up to the Senate to strip out these gifts to the fossil fuel industry, and it’s up to us tell our elected Senate ...

Water flows up from a broken old oil well ... on wastewater injection practices and proper management of abandoned wells,” the study said. Todd Staples, president of the Texas Oil and Gas ...

One abandoned well on his land that he showed ABC News had formed a toxic pool of produced water that stretched down nearby ...

Schuyler Wight has noticed a growing number of abandoned oil wells coming back to life, gurgling fluids on the surface of his West Texas ranch. Last week he found the biggest one yet. Gassy water ...

Abandoned water wells - there’s a proper procedure for how they should be closed up, but officials say that isn’t always happening. “They’re all over and sometimes they’re just covered ...