The latest communication from the Sierra Club…

Did you know that communities in Wyoming sometimes have worse air quality days than Los Angeles due to natural gas drilling?¹ Or that hydraulic fracturing – the drilling method used by the oil and gas industry – creates polluted wastewater which includes radioactive materials and toxic chemicals?

Unfortunately, oil and gas lobbyists have succeeded in carving out loopholes in the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Air Act, leaving communities all over the country to suffer from the effects of unregulated drilling – dirty air and polluted drinking water.

Tell your representative that it is time to close these loopholes and protect our air and water from oil and gas drilling.

Companies involved in hydraulic fracturing should have to report the chemicals they pump underground, and their injection wells should be covered by the protections provided by the Safe Drinking Water Act. In addition, they should be required to meet Clean Air Act standards, just like other industries across the United States.

Tell Congress to end the environmental exemptions for the oil and gas industry.

People should not have to worry about the safety of their drinking water or breathe dirty air because of natural gas drilling. It’s time to close the loopholes in environmental laws that allow natural gas companies to evade government oversight and pollute our air and water.

Sincerely,

Deborah Nardone
Sierra Club Natural Gas Reform Campaign