House Democrats push grants program to plug abandoned oil, gas wells

House Democrats are highlighting a grants program that President Joe Biden’s massive infrastructure plan would create to plug thousands of orphan oil and gas wells across the country, floating stand-alone legislation that would create the $8 billion program and stressing both the cleanup and jobs it would spur. The House Natural Resources Committee’s energy panel plans to hold a hearing April 15 on the legislation, introduced by freshman Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM) April 8. The measures in the bill...