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Salty, Oily Drinking Water Left Sores in Their Mouths. Oklahoma Refused to Find Out Why. (www.propublica.org)

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When Tammy Boarman first contacted oil regulators, she was hopeful state officials would find the source of the pollution and clean it up. For the next two years, the state repeatedly tested the Boarmans’ water for contaminants and found salt concentrations that made the water undrinkable and, at one point, toxic metals at levels high enough to endanger human health — strong signs of oil field wastewater pollution, according to agency testing.

But regulators repeatedly delayed or failed to conduct other tests recommended by the agency’s own employees to locate the pollution source, according to internal agency documents obtained by The Frontier and ProPublica through public records requests.

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[–] decapitae@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

With all of the care and responsibility we've come to expect from the oil industry worldwide - they're out from under their rocks as nazis in the former usa right now, acting like "federal" government - got republican congress so scared they won't impeach.
The Boarmans maybe could start a go fund me and run for congress in OK- cause they need non-nazis to represent them in a bad way.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Non-nazis in OK? Good luck. OK is just North Texas.

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

fun fact OK's panhandle exists because TX gave that slice to the union (OK was a territory at the time, not a state). TX didn't want to be north of the MO compromise line

https://amproehl.com/blog/2018/6/24/the-strange-slavery-defined-border-of-oklahomas-panhandle

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yup, and they've been whining about that and part of Colorado recently. Lol gfy Nazis.

Edit: "recently" it was like 20 years ago.