Backyard bonanza or environmental time bomb?
Our vice-president Mark Salkin is quoted in this story about the Baldwin Hills Oil fields. There is also some good background on how oil is extracted from the ground and lists some of the toxic byproducts.
Oil companies are revisiting formerly abandoned drill sites forsaken years ago as being unprofitable. This is not surprising considering the recent skyrocketing gasoline prices and oil costs per barrel.
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