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New State Plan to Protect Underground Drinking Water from Fracking Waste

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The state has drafted a plan to make sure oil companies don't contaminate underground drinking water. That's in response to a federal deadline and amid reports that for years, state regulators allowed oil companies to inject wastewater into protected aquifers.

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