President Joe Biden’s massive green infrastructure plan contains a proposal to address a long-standing environmental hazard while helping fossil fuel workers who lost their jobs during the pandemic or who are threatened by the administration’s push for cleaner energy.

Biden pledges to create a federal program providing $16 billion in government funding to states to help them plug “orphan” oil and gas wells whose owners are either unknown or insolvent.

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