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Oil companies should
stop oil well emissions

California’s 40,000 idle oil and gas wells, and 60,000 active wells, leak toxic chemicals like cancer-causing benzene and climate-heating methane, a greenhouse gas containing 80 times the climate-warming power of carbon dioxide.

Current law allows oil companies to pay a small fee to avoid plugging idle wells, but the oil industry has still failed to clean them up...