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. ____ (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 

The hearing will take place on the Cisco WebEx platform and will be livestreamed on YouTube.