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BILLINGS, Mont. — State governments across the West fail to protect citizens and the environment from a tide of the oil and gas industry’s byproduct, radioactive waste, according to a report by the Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC). The report, No Time To Waste, finds the storage, transport, and disposal of radioactive oil and gas field waste in the West are vastly under-regulated. Oil and gas industry wastes are exempt from the federal regulation, despite the admission by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a 1987 repor...
Oil and gas extraction practices are permanently removing at least seven billion gallons of water from the hydrologic cycle each year in just four arid western states, according to a new report, Gone for Good, published by the Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC). The reason for the huge loss of water is that states have failed to place adequate protections on the use and contamination of fresh water in hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” the technology that has allowed the oil and gas industry to extract oil and gas from sha...
