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Abandoning years of official skepticism, Oklahoma's government on Tuesday embraced a scientific consensus that earthquakes rocking the state are largely caused by the underground disposal of billions of barrels of wastewater from oil and gas wells.

"There may be a link between earthquakes and disposal wells," the group's president, Chad Warmington, said in the statement, "But we - industry, regulators, researchers, lawmakers or state residents - still don't know enough about how wastewater injection impacts Oklahoma's underground faults."

One of the most prominent advocates of stronger action on the earthquake issue, State Representative Cory Williams, a Democrat, said he had been pleasantly surprised by the change in what he called the state's "Head in the sand" approach to the quake problem.

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