Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it.

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By Nick Bowlin, The FrontierOct 29, 2025, 5:35 am230 ptsTop
In January 2020, Danny Ray started a complicated job with the Oklahoma agency that regulates oil and gas. The petroleum engineer who’d spent more than 40 years in the oil fields had been hired to help address a spreading problem, one that state regulators did not fully understand. The year prior, toxic…

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