Man Sues Fracking Companies For Causing Earthquakes With Waste Water Injections

(November 21, 2016, 1:39 PM EST) -- PAWNEE, Okla. — An Oklahoma man on Nov. 17 filed a putative class action lawsuit against two hydraulic fracturing companies in state court, seeking punitive damages for causing earthquakes and the pollution of the environment as a result of injecting fracking waste water into the ground and creating an increase in the occurrence and severity of seismic activity (James Adams, et al. v. Eagle Road Oil LLC, et al., No. 2016-78, Okla. Dist., Pawnee Co.)....

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