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We expose the people draining our water and poisoning our land, connect the communities getting hit, and help Texans fight on the same side.
Texans Overwhelmingly Oppose Using Land for 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. 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.
Read more →Mapping Messy Texas Water Data
Texas audits cities’ water every year — but state regulators just deleted 15 years of those records from the web, making it nearly impossible to check your town’s past.
We saved the files and built this map so you can see the actual pollution in your area. Use it to find out what is in your water, so you can fight for better water.
Read more →She Thought Her Daughter Was Faking Sick. Then She Found Out Her Elementary School Was Built on a Drilling Waste Site.
When hundreds of North Texas homeowners bought into a new planned community, no one told them about the drilling waste dump that lay beneath the site — until Future Heist reporting revealed its history.
Now, amid reports of sick kids in the local elementary, the company that sold those homes insists that it acted better than other developers would. It insists the ground is clean. Just don’t ask to see the results.
Read more →Whistleblower Says Radioactive Fracking Waste Site Melted His Jaw. Now There’s an Elementary School There.
In a North Texas county where dozens of cattle died from “forever chemical” poisoning, an oil and gas whistleblower claims he dumped “radioactive” drilling waste on a site hosts an elementary school.
And with the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs expanding over the dumping grounds of fracking’s Ground Zero, that site is probably only unique in one way: that you’re hearing about it at all.
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