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These Teens Adopted an Orphaned Oil Well. Their Goal: Shut It Down. Students, nonprofit groups and others are fund-raising to cap highly polluting oil and gas wells abandoned by industry. (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/climate@slrpnk.net
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It's a serious policy failure that this is happening; the people paying to cap wells should be the ones who became wealthy by extracting the oil, not a bunch of random teenagers.

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[–] 13 points 2 years ago

And...

"We're the cleanup crew for a party we were too young to attend." - Kevin Gilbert, from a song on the album Thud

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