Category: Journalism
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1.2 Million Oil Wells Are Buried Underneath Texas. Do You Live on Top of a Dangerous One?
Published in The Texas Observer his spring, a Permian Basin pastor got an unpleasant surprise: a geyser of more than 1.5 million gallons of toxic brine gushing up through the parking lot of the First…
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Oil execs exposed the industry’s greatest weakness
Published in Heated Sometime in the next few months, Texas is set to issue its first permits letting the oil industry pour treated fracking wastewater into rivers and onto cropland. Five applications are currently pending,…
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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,…
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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…