Category: DataTools
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Texas Deleted Its Data About Which Towns Have Dangerous Water. We Grabbed it for You.
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…