Disaster Looms on the Guadalupe River Floodplain

An epic flood a generation ago drenched areas around Texas’ Guadalupe River, showing how quickly and dangerously the region could be submerged. Since then, Texas — with no state floodplain policy — has allowed oil companies to frack this same area, extracting fossil fuels underground in the Eagle Ford Shale. It may be, as one … Continue reading Disaster Looms on the Guadalupe River Floodplain