Judge’s connection to driller at issue in Pa. pollution case

By Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press

The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office indicated it might seek removal of a judge expected to preside over a criminal case in which he has ties to the defendant — the state’s biggest gas driller, which is charged with polluting residential water supplies in a community where residents famously were able to light their tap water on fire.

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Will taxpayers bear the cost of cleaning up America’s abandoned oil wells?

By Leanna First-Arai, The Guardian

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

 

Oil and gas companies have a century-old bad habit of drilling wells and ditching them.

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