"It costs more than $180,000 to clean up an average orphan well in California ...oil and gas companies have set aside only about $2,400 per well."

https://www.propublica.org/article/a-setup-for-disaster-california-legislation-requiring-companies-to-pay-for-oil-and-gas-well-cleanup-in-limbo

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