NEW ORLEANS: More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades.
No one - not industry, not government - is checking to see if they are leaking, an Associated Press investigation shows.
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