An effort to find abandoned and orphaned gas wells in parts of southwestern Pennsylvania took to the sky Sunday morning over Ross Park Mall.
The flights, conducted before the mall opened, marked the start of field work to survey parts of Ross and Shaler along with areas of North Fayette and White Oak in Allegheny County and South Strabane and Charleroi in Washington County.
The project is being conducted by a coalition of government agencies, environmental groups and universities, with funding from Bloomberg Family Foundation and the Hillman Foundation…