A report by Rolling Stone magazine calls it “America’s radioactive secret,” the brine from oil and gas wells in Oklahoma, Texas and other energy-producing states.
The report maintains that oil fields across the U.S. have been found to produce brine that is highly radioactive.
In an investigation involving hundreds of interviews with scientists, environmentalists, regulators, and workers, Rolling Stone found a sweeping arc of contamination — oil-and-gas waste spilled, spread, and dumped across America, posing under-studied risks to the environment, the public, and especially the industry’s own employees.
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