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By Shelby Webb
Pump jacks extract oil from beneath the ground in North Dakota. Credit: Matthew Brown/AP
From the article:
New Class VI wells will need to be watched closely because the technology is so new, said Virginia Palacios, executive director of Commission Shift Action, an advocacy group seeking reforms to the Railroad Commission of Texas, which oversees the state’s oil and gas industry.
There are now eight federal EPA-permitted Class VI injection wells and at least 17 state-permitted Class VI injection wells.
“This is all fresh, and we need to make sure that we don’t mess it up and ruin our groundwater at the same time we’re trying to solve climate change,” Palacios said.
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