Grist: The American landscape is dotted with oil and gas wells that have been abandoned over the years. And if you happen to live atop one of those wells, this can be a big problem.
NPR tells the story of Rick Kinder, a construction worker who was building a house in southern Colorado when a sudden blast sent him flying. "We just heard this big roar and then a big boom, and it threw us against the walls, and it just blew the whole top of the roof off," Kinder says. Though no one was killed in the accident,...