The Oklahoma agency responsible for ensuring that oil company operations do not pollute municipal groundwater has granted nearly 400 industry requests for injection rule waivers since 2022. Cities are powerless to pass their own rules. with @readfrontier.bsky.social
To Protect Its Drinking Water, This City Has to Appeal to the Oil Regulators That Put It at RiskOklahoma restricts oil field wastewater injection within a half-mile of public water wells. Regulators have let companies do it anyway. But in the city of Enid, officials are pushing back against one ...www.propublica.org