Oil Regulators Permitted Underground Injection Wells Before Assessing Water Pollution Threats
LOS ANGELES—(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015. California oil regulators today released a report that found “systemic problems” in the state’s regulation of oil industry underground injection in the Los Angeles area. The report admits that oil companies have been allowed to drill wells and begin injecting fluid underground before any assessment of contamination risks to underground water supplies in and around America’s second-largest city.
“State officials…
