National Public Radio: The air reeks so strongly of rotten eggs that tribal leader Wes Martel hesitates to get out of the car at an oil field on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. He already has a headache from the fumes he smelled at another oil field. Martel is giving me a tour of one of a dozen oil and gas fields on the reservation. These operations have the federal government's permission to dump wastewater on the land - so much that it creates streams that flow into natural creeks and rivers. And this water...
URL: http://www.npr.org/2012/11/08/164688735/loophole-lets-toxic-oil-water-flow-over-indian-land?ft=1&f=1025
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