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to steal back our land, water, and future
We expose the people draining our water and poisoning our land, connect the communities getting hit, and help Texans fight on the same side.
How to fight Texas wastewater permits
All five Permian discharge applications—for the Pecos River basin—are currently under TCEQ review and comments are open now. You can submit comments or request a public meeting through TCEQ’s eComment site.
- NGL Water Solutions Permian (Reeves County) — #WQ0005445000 — Proposed permit details —
- Solaris Water Midstream (Reeves County) — #WQ0005471000 — Proposed permit details —
- Solaris Water Midstream No. 2 (Culberson County) — #WQ0005474000 — Proposed permit details —
- Texas Pacific Water Resources (Reeves County) — #WQ0005454000 — Proposed permit details —
- Select Water Solutions (Reeves County) — #WQ0005495000 — Proposed permit details —
TCEQ Air Quality Event Data
Every year, Texas chemical plants, refineries, and industrial facilities report thousands of air quality events to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. These aren’t routine emissions—they’re excess releases, equipment failures, and spills that the companies are legally required to disclose.
What’s in here
- 100,000+ incidents
- ~2,000 chemicals
- Full incident details
This dataset brings that scattered reporting into one place: 100,000+ incidents, with details on what was released, where, how much, and what the company said about what happened.
Download the data
Complete incident database
All incidents with full details: date, facility, chemicals, duration, and company responses, incidents.csv.zip
All incidents by chemical, incident_contaminants.csv.zip
Chemical breakdown…
Read more →We Built a Map of Every Texas Well at Risk of Leaking Toxic Oilfield Wastewater
Texas pumps billions of barrels of oilfield wastewater back underground every year. That pressure has to go somewhere — one place it can end up is the nearest old well, a zombie well, plugged and forgotten, coming back to life as a live path to the surface.
25,719 of Texas’s plugged wells score Critical for zombie risk. Another 52,921 score High. 934 injection wells statewide have a documented casing failure — a leak between tubing and casing, the clearest sign a wellbore has already given out. Nearly 2 in 5 Texas schools and daycares have one of these wells within a mile.
Read more →The Texas Oil Industry Wants to Dump Its Toxic Wastewater on Farms. Regulators Need To Protect The Public.
Texas wants to let oil and gas companies treat produced water, the salty and often radioactive waste from oil wells, and spray it on farmland across the state. We think that rule’s not ready. It tests for the things you’d find in sewage, not for things like radioactive elements, forever chemicals, or cancer-causing chemicals like benzene — all common in oilfield waste. The setbacks were built around odor complaints rather than spills. And it lets companies keep the test data quiet and leave the cleanup to neighbors and, eventually, taxpayers.
New Mexico looked at the same waste and banned it. Texas is rushing the other way.
Read more →Texans Want Their Land and Health Protected from Toxic Oilfield Wastewater
TCEQ asked whether oil and gas companies should be allowed to spread treated produced water on Texas land. Forty-six people wrote in. We read them and pulled out what each person said.
Zero commenters supported the rule outright (as of 2026/06/15 at 1:30 pm). Nearly everyone was concerned or hostile. Texans don’t want this wastewater on their land or in their water.
Browse the comments below. See the breakdown by stance and topic, and read the original letters yourself.
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