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Thousands of oil and gas wells on federal land are not being inspected, putting the environment in peril. Drilling has expanded in recent years because of fracking—and more than 3,700 wells are rated as high risks for water contamination and other hazards. But the Bureau of Land Management inspected only 1,600 of them.

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