No Taxes, No Waste, No Problem: West Virginia’s Orphan Oil Well Solution

28/10/2025 10 min
No Taxes, No Waste, No Problem: West Virginia’s Orphan Oil Well Solution

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode, we spotlight a notable policy innovation: West Virginia’s Mountain State Plugging Fund, a public–private partnership created to cover thousands of orphaned oil and gas wells without using taxpayer money, transforming scattered liabilities into a structured, scalable solution.