To Protect Its Drinking Water, This City Has to Appeal to the Oil Regulators That Put It at Risk ^34.1%

ProPublica - By Nick Bowlin, Al Shaw - 6/30/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 17.7% - Appeal to Emotion 13% - Biased Writer Voice 11.1%

To Protect Its Drinking Water, This City Has to Appeal to the Oil Regulators That Put It at Risk Oklahoma restricts oil field wastewater injection within a half-mile of public water wells. Regulators have let companies do it anyway. But in the city of Enid, officials are pushing back against one of the state’s biggest industries. This... more