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April 14, 2016

Feds: EPA failing to protect water

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal review says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect drinking-water reserves from oilfield contamination.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office review follows disclosures that California allowed oil companies to dump wastewater into some federally protected supplies of drinking water. The review looked at California's problems and sampled how EPA offices in several states were doing on the same issue. Those states were Colorado, Kentucky, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas.


 
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