New Rules for Fracking on Public Lands Fall Short
This blog post is co-authored with Matthew McFeeley. The Obama administration's Bureau of Land Management (a division of the Department of the Interior) today...
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What Should We Expect from EPA's Study on Fracking and Drinking Water?
The Environmental Protection Agency is scheduled to release a draft of its long awaited study on hydraulic fracturing's potential impacts on drinking water...
Hundreds of Active Oil Waste Injection Wells Still Threaten Drinking Water across California
California regulators shut down 12 injection wells last week that were improperly permitted to pump potentially toxic oil and gas waste water into drinking...
State Shuts Down 12 More Wells Pumping Oil Waste into California Drinking Water
Regulators in California ordered operators to shut down 12 wells injecting potentially toxic oil and gas wastewater into federally protected drinking water -...
Who's to blame for oil waste in Californians' drinking water? Part II
Recently it was revealed that oil and gas operators in California have been granted more than 2500 permits to inject oil and gas wastewater and other fluids...
Who's to blame for oil waste in Californians' drinking water?
New information shows decades of mismanagement and failure to safeguard federally protected drinking water aquifers Photo Credit: NRDC New information from the...