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California Halts Injection Of Fracking Waste, Warning It May Be Contaminating Aquifers

State’s drought has forced farmers to rely on groundwater, even as California aquifers have been intentionally polluted due to exemptions for oil industry.

21 июля, 2014

От Abrahm Lustgarten

California officials have ordered an emergency shut-down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state's drought-wracked Central Valley out of fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids and other toxic waste into drinking water aquifers there. The state's Division of Oil and Gas and

BP Agrees To Plead Guilty To Crimes In Gulf Oil Spill

16 ноября, 2012

От Abrahm Lustgarten

BP Agrees To Plead Guilty To Crimes In Gulf Oil Spill

BP agreed to plead guilty today to charges of manslaughter, environmental crimes, and lying to Congress in connection with the 2010Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion, which killed 11 workers and sent as much as 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. As part of a

The Trillion-Gallon Loophole: Lax Rules For Drillers That Inject Pollutants Into the Earth

21 сентября, 2012

От Abrahm Lustgarten

The Trillion-Gallon Loophole: Lax Rules For Drillers That Inject Pollutants Into the Earth

On a cold, overcast afternoon in January 2003, two tanker trucks backed up to an injection well site in a pasture outside Rosharon, Texas. There, under a steel shed, they began to unload thousands of gallons of wastewater for burial deep beneath the earth. The waste – the byproduct of oil and gas drilling – was

New Study: Fluids From Marcellus Shale Likely Seeping Into PA Drinking Water

10 июля, 2012

От Abrahm Lustgarten

New Study: Fluids From Marcellus Shale Likely Seeping Into PA Drinking Water

New research has concluded that salty, mineral-rich fluids deep beneath Pennsylvania's natural gas fields are likely seeping upward thousands of feet into drinking water supplies. Though the fluids were natural and not the byproduct of drilling or hydraulic fracturing, the finding further stokes the red-hot controversy over fracking in the

Injection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us

22 июня, 2012

От Abrahm Lustgarten

Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth, using broad expanses of the nation's geology as an invisible dumping ground. No company would be allowed to pour such dangerous chemicals into the rivers or onto the soil. But until recently, scientists and