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"Oil Company Challenges Oklahoma’s Policy To Reduce Earthquakes" [1]

"An Oklahoma oil company is challenging the state’s limits on drilling wastewater injections that came in response to a sharp increase in earthquakes.

Marjo Operating Co., Inc. is now the first company to formally object to the actions of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, which are intended to slow the earthquakes that the state believes are caused by underground disposal of wastewater near faults, according to the Oklahoman.

The limitations on injections started earlier this year when the state officially agreed with years of scientific evidence that wastewater was causing earthquakes."

Timothy Cama reports for The Hill October 13, 2015. [2]

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Source: The Hill [2], 10/14/2015
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/oil-company-challenges-oklahoma%E2%80%99s-policy-reduce-earthquakes [2] http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/256790-oil-company-challenges-okla-on-drilling-link-to-earthquakes [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southwest [6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81