California is facing an urgent climate and public health crisis: 41,568 old oil & gas wells currently sit abandoned or covered up leaking methane and volatile organic compounds into the air, water, and soils in our communities. CLIC REPORT: " Residential proximity to abandoned oil and gas development and risk of childhood Ewing sarcoma in California ", this report talks of living within 10 miles of old and abandoned oil & gas wells and possibly contracting Ewing sarcoma . how about actually drinking tainted water. Abandoned, idle, and orphaned oil and gas wells in California leak hazardous materials like methane, benzene, and toxic brine, threatening public health, groundwater, and the climate with hydrocarbons. Would you build a town's underground  drinking water reservoirs next to or on top of an old oil & gas well that goes down thousands of feet?  State regulators estimate that thousands of these wells drilled down thousands of feet lack viable operators...