California and Pollution

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1. California Regulators Banned Fracking Wastewater for Irrigation, but Allow Wastewater From Oil Drilling. Scientists Say There’s Little Difference

2022-04-24

Inside Climate News
View In: California and PollutionCalifornia prohibits farmers from growing crops with chemical-laced wastewater from fracking. Yet the state still allows them to use water produced by conventional oil drilling—a chemical soup that contains many of the same toxic compounds. When rumors spread several years ago that California was growin...

2. Why Did California Regulators Choose a Firm with Ties to Chevron to Study Irrigating Crops with Oil Wastewater?

2022-02-27

Inside Climate News
View In: California and PollutionIn 2015, a California water board suddenly found itself under a microscope for allowing farmers to irrigate their crops with oil field wastewater, a practice it had condoned for decades. The California Council on Science and Technology had just revealed that the testing and treatment of hazardous chemical...

3. California Oil Safety Rule Contains ‘Zombie Well’ Loophole, Advocates Say

2022-02-17

California Expose
View In: California and PollutionLawsuit in Bay Area represents a looming issue for thousands of idled oil and gas wells. The post California Oil Safety Rule Contains ‘Zombie Well’ Loophole, Advocates Say appeared first on .

4. Ghosts of Polluters Past

2022-01-13

Grist
View In: California and PollutionAs new soil tests reveal the pervasiveness of lead contamination, one California barrio continues its long struggle for justice

5. Toxic Churn

2022-01-13

Grist
View In: California and PollutionHow the legacy of former industrial sites pollutes American cities today

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