Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help.
The Meredith family's dream home has turned into a toxic nightmare, inundated with oily sludge that has left them homeless and frustrated with Oklahoma regulators who seem more interested in downplaying the crisis than addressing it.
The incident is one symptom of a larger problem: the state's failure to address abandoned oil wells and their devastating impact on public health.