A recent California Council of Science and Technology study found “significant concerns” regarding the state’s protection of underground sources of drinking water from oil industry pollution.
The state also admitted in the letter that it mistakenly stripped federal protections for 10 of 11 aquifers that contain high-quality groundwater. Nonetheless, state officials intend to allow illegal injection into these aquifers to continue until December 2016. The state’s top oil official resigned several weeks ago in the wake of lawsuits over his failure to prevent oil companies from contaminating protected aquifers.
“Californians deserve to know what’s going on with these injection wells in L.A.,” Kretzmann said. “It doesn’t do anyone any good to keep the results secret but, instead, becomes simply another disturbing chapter in the Brown administration’s scandalous failure to protect California’s water from oil industry pollution. The more we learn the worse things look for our state.”
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