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The government has pledged to fight climate change by tackling threats posed by abandoned oil and gas wells.It set aside $4.7 billion from the infrastructure bill to do so, but much of those resources focus on the release of methane into the atmosphere and not the possible threats to aquifers.Half of the US population relies on wells for its drinking water, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Seventy percent of those people get their water from public wells wh
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The Wisconsin Department of Health Services will now be including statistics on the spread of the new Delta COVID-19 variant in the state.This com
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