Category: Water
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Why the Rule Allowing Treated oilfield wastewater on Texas Farms Needs to Be Redone
Texas wants to let oil and gas companies treat produced water, the salty and often radioactive waste from oil wells, and spread it on farmland across the state. We filed a comment telling TCEQ the…
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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…
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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…