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“They’re a bunch of liars” – records expose lies about injection well safety

Laurie Barr has been plagued by smelly and seeping toxic waste in her work to hunt down and plug abandoned oil and gas wells. Her home state of Pennsylvania is the second largest producer of natural gas in the United States and has more than 200,000 abandoned wells, more than anywhere in the country.

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