Please consider signing this petition to repeal the Haliburton loophole

[Champion Jack]

Repeal legislation making oil and natural gas companies exempt from the clean air and water act

Many of the over 300,000 oil and natural gas wells drilled in the US have employed hydraulic fracturing, a process that involves the underground injection of tens of thousands to six million gallons of water per well. The water is laced with over 450 toxic chemicals. Congress considered hydraulic fracturing exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Air Act in 2004 (thank you Dick Cheney, his company Haliburton dramatically increased profits) Oil and natural gas companies have been abusing this exemption ever since, often dumping highly toxic waste water on open land and near watershed areas, causing the chemicals to leach into drinking water and/or evaporate into the air. Wells often vent extremely toxic "sour gas." The EPA cannot investigate these cases since the ruling in 04



https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/repeal-legislation-making-oil-and-natural-gas-companies-exempt-clean-air-and-water-act/zJCLX3Wq

[peacebird]

1. Done! K&R!

[MotherPetrie]

2. Done

[Champion Jack]

3. Thanks!