Topic - Jeremy Weber

In areas with a lot of abandoned wells, a plugging program “would be something that, over time, greases the wheels for building,” he said, “because now there are that many more parcels for which you don’t need to deal with a well.”

Infrastructure money could aid push to plug oil, gas wells →

But historical data on energy jobs suggest a much smaller impact of about 60,000 jobs, said Jeremy Weber, former chief energy economist for Trump's White House Council of Economic Advisers and now a University of Pittsburgh associate professor

EXPLAINER: Why is Biden halting federal oil and gas sales? →