This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Salty water is gurgling up from underground in the middle of the small Permian Basin town of Grandfalls, Texas. The liquid began pooling in the parking lot of the First Baptist […]
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Is Fracking in Texas Endangering a Day Care’s Children?
In early December, drilling resumed near Mother’s Heart Learning Center. Newly installed gas wells dot property at 2020 S. Watson Road, less than one mile from the day care. One day in December, the sound of fracking machinery was so cacophonous that children couldn’t play outdoors. For gas companies and stakeholders, the project is poised to […]
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Whistleblower Says Radioactive Fracking Waste Site Melted His Jaw. Now There’s an Elementary School There.
EXCLUSIVE Sure, Lee Oldham told me, he had spread radioactive fracking waste on Texas farmland. But in his defense, he never in a million years thought anyone would put a school there. We were standing in the frigid wind on a field in Johnson County. It was January, and 52-year-old Oldham wore a heavy flannel […]
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A Giant Oil-Soaked Geyser is Spewing Filth Into the West Texas Sky
In what sounds like the grossest water show ever, a geyser of salty, possibly oil-laced water is blasting 100 feet into the air in West Texas, where earthquakes caused by wastewater injections have been shaking things up lately. We don’t know the source of the geyser yet; a Texas Railroad Commission map showed the area […]
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A Texas Official Realizes We’re ‘Out of Water’
Apparently ignoring climate change has consequences because even Texas state officials now admit that we’re running out of water. In a true Leopards Ate My Face moment, Agriculture Commissioner (and sentient cowboy hat) Sid Miller rang a warning bell this weekend, telling WFAA: “The limiting factor is water. We’re out of water, especially in the […]