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ProPublica: 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 described in regulatory documents as a benign mixture of salt and water. But as the liquid rushed from the trucks, it released a billowing vapor of far more volatile materials, including......
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Oil and gas drillers have injected more than 10 trillion gallons of wastewater into the earth
Posted by ProPublica: Abrahm Lustgarten on September 21st, 2012
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