Health experts and community leaders today raised serious questions about the state of California’s ability to protect the public’s health from the dangerous effects of fracking and other extreme methods of oil extraction.

California’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) released Wednesday a final Environmental Impact Report on the same day fracking regulations mandated by a new California law go into effect. While legislation, known as SB 4, that Gov. Brown signed into law in 2013 required the state to conduct both an environmental impact report and an independent scientific review of fracking and other forms of well stimulation in order to craft regulations, both studies will be released after permanent regulations are already in effect.

“The state review is a classic case of ‘leap before you look,’” said Sue Chiang, pollution prevention director at the Center for Environmental Health. “It’s outrageous that the governor allowed the agency to finalize both its regulations and its environmental review before we know what independent researchers have to say about the health and environmental risks of fracking and the oil extraction process.”

The final environmental report is almost identical to a draft report released earlier this year and focuses almost exclusively on fracking and other well-stimulation techniques, rather than considering the risks and harms associated with all phases of drilling and production.