“While the average citizen can receive harsh punishment under federal law for dumping a car battery into a pond, gas companies, thanks to what has become known as the Halliburton Loophole, are allowed to pump millions of gallons of fluid containing toxic chemicals into the ground, right next to our aquifers, without even having to identify them.”
Read that in Vanity Fair’s fracking article from last summer.
The federal law it references is the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which, according to VF, was “crafted by Dick Cheney in closed-door meetings with oil-and-gas executives.”
Clearly not the best we can do.
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