ProPublicaToxic oil waste is increasingly shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma, contaminating the state’s drinking water.
We found that regulators identified 2,000 problem wells in a 2021 report. Then they ignored their findings.
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Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
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