Insider loans? Audit raises red flags over Louisiana orphan well program

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A private organization entrusted with money intended to protect Louisiana from the cost of abandoned oil and gas wells used funds to make below-market loans benefiting a senior state regulator, his relatives and the organization’s owners. That’s according to a new audit of the Department of Conservation and Energy’s Orphan Well Pilot Program, an initiative

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