By Martha Pskowski , Inside Climate News.  Excerpt: The Railroad Commission of Texas shut down injection wells to control a leak in a church parking lot. But 1.5 million gallons of toxic wastewater still spilled to the surface. ...The state regulator, the Railroad Commission, spent $1.49 million plugging the leak and another $1.16 million disposing of the wastewater back underground. By early June, crews had stopped the flow and plugged the wellbore....  Full article at https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11062026/texas-oil-well-leaks-million-of-gallons-of-toxic-wastewater/ . 

By Lisa Friedman , The New York Times.  Excerpt: Venezuela’s oil reserves, thought to be the largest in the world at an estimated 300 billion barrels, are notable not just for scale. Most of the oil found there is among the dirtiest type, with high sulfur and low hydrogen content. ...the country is vulnerable to oil spills, it has one of the fastest deforestation rates in the tropics and the production of its oil generates more planet-warming greenhouse gases than most other types of crude oil....  Full article at https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/climate/venezuela-dirty-oil.html . 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/us/california-oil-spill-beach.html Source: By Jill Cowan ,  Clifford Krauss  and  Ivan Penn , The New York Times.  Excerpt: A pipeline transporting oil from offshore platforms spilled at least 126,000 gallons of oil in Southern California, the state’s largest such leak since 2015.…