A first-of-its-kind survey of approximately 5,000 households living within a quarter-mile of oil and gas wells across 18 states reveals strong and consistent grassroots demand for remediation and transition. With 88% of respondents supporting programs to plug inactive or orphaned wells and 82% favorable toward geothermal development as a pathway to repurpose existing infrastructure, the data challenges the assumption that local opposition is a barrier to action. This session unpacks the policy implications of those findings and explores how community sentiment can be leveraged to accelerate cleanup timelines and unlock new use cases for legacy well sites.