Nelson wants Texas oil company scrutinized

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson wants the Environmental Protection Agency to look into a Texas company fined in Florida for an unauthorized drilling operation using acid to create fractures.

In a letter Thursday to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, Nelson, D-Fla., said the “fracking-like incident” raises concerns about activities that “pose a threat to the drinking and surface water so close to the Florida Everglades.”