Oil and Gas Companies Used Banned Toxic Chemicals Near the Rocky Mountains
Colorado oil and gas companies used toxic chemicals prohibited under state law in operations involving dozens of wells on either side of the Rocky Mountains over at least the last 18 months.
Disclosures to the state’s fossil fuel regulator showed operators combined banned substances with water, sand and other chemicals as part of a process known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.”
One of the banned chemicals, known as 1,4-Dioxane, was determined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to present an “unreasonable risk to workers and the general population.”
The agency found ingesting or breathing it “can cause cancer, liver toxicity, and adverse effects to nasal tissue.
Author summary: Oil companies used banned toxic chemicals near the Rocky Mountains.
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