Subcommittee Hearing: Building Back Better: Creating Jobs and Reducing Pollution by Plugging and Reclaiming Orphaned Wells

Date: Thursday, April 15, 2021 Time: 02:00 PM Presiding: The Honorable Alan Lowenthal, Chair

On Thursday, April 15, 2021, at 2:00 p.m. (EDT), the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will host a virtual, fully remote legislative hearing titled, “Building Back Better: Creating Jobs and Reducing Pollution by Plugging and Reclaiming Orphaned Wells,” including the following bill and other related measures.  

  • H.R. H.R. 2415 (Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández), To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of the Interior to establish a program to permanently plug, remediate, and reclaim orphaned wells and the surrounding lands and to provide funds States and Tribal Governments to permanently plug, remediate, and reclaim orphaned wells and the surrounding lands, and for other purposes. Orphaned Well Cleanup and Jobs Act 

 

Witness List

Panel I

Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, New Mexico, 3rd District

Panel II

Ms. Lori Wrotenbery (testimony)

Executive Director

Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission

Dr. Mary Kang (testimony)

Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering McGill University

Mr. Don Schreiber (testimony)

Rancher

Rio Arriba County, NM

Mr. Ted Boettner (testimony)

Senior Researcher

Ohio River Valley Institute

Mr. Tom Kropatsch (testimony)

Deputy Oil and Gas Supervisor

Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission

Mr. Tim Tarpley (testimony)

Senior Vice President for Government Affairs Energy Workforce and Technology Council