Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. ^40.9%

ProPublica - By Nick Bowlin - 10/29/2025, 9:30 AM

Negativity Bias 26.8% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 13.9% - Appeal to Emotion 12.6%

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 water had poured out of the ground... more