Two lead-sheathed telephone cables are abandoned under a railroad bridge crossing Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho.
Photo: AMI VITALE for The Wall Street Journal
Steve Plants’s oil wells produce fewer than five barrels a day. He has permanently closed some as a result of low prices.
PHOTO: NICK BRANDRETH FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (Dow Jones)--Hundreds of people gathered as here Monday to debate the safety of a gas drilling method called hydraulic fracturing, with critics campaigning against the industry and urging federal regulators to halt the practice.