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How State Regulators Allowed a Fading West Texas Town to Go Over Four Years Without Safe Drinking Water

The Texas attorney general finally filed suit last year, but some residents in Toyah say the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality was “negligent” and want to know what took so long.

By Martha Pskowski

Landowners Fear Injection of Fracking Waste Threatens Aquifers in West Texas

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, with photos by Pu Ying Huang, Texas Tribune

At CERAWeek, Big Oil Executives Call for ‘Energy Security’ and Longevity for Fossil Fuels

By Nicholas Kusnetz

One State Generates Much, Much More Renewable Energy Than Any Other—and It’s Not California

By Dan Gearino

EPA Paused Waste Shipments From Ohio Train Derailment After Texas Uproar

By Dylan Baddour

After Explosion, Freeport LNG Rejoins the Gulf Coast Energy Export Boom

By Dylan Baddour, Delger Erdenesanaa

Nick Dornak, the president of the nonprofit group Friends of the Brazos River canoes the John Graves Scenic Riverway during a photo shoot with his 11-year-old daughter Emery. His father-in-law, Ed Lowe founded Friends of the Brazos and led the years long fight for legislation to protect this section of the river from industrial polluters. Credit: Meridith Kohut for The Texas Observer

Drifting Toward Disaster: Breaking the Brazos

By Kathryn Jones, Texas Observer

Texas Oilfield Waste Company Contributed $53,750 to Regulators Overseeing a Controversial Permit Application

By Martha Pskowski

Texas Regulators Won’t Stop an Oilfield Waste Dump Site Next to Wetlands, Streams and Wells

By Dylan Baddour

Outdated EPA Standards Allow Oil Refineries to Pollute Waterways

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski

Texas Environmentalists Look to EPA for Action on Methane, Saying State Agencies Have ‘Failed Us’

By Martha Pskowski

EPA Moves Away From Permian Air Pollution Crackdown

By Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

Texas Project Will Use Wind to Make Fuel Out of Water

By Dylan Baddour

The ‘Plant Daddy of Dallas’ Is Paving the Way for Clean, Profitable Urban Agriculture

By Autumn Jones

Army Corps of Engineers Withdraws Approval of Plans to Dredge a Superfund Site on the Texas Gulf Coast for Oil Tanker Traffic

By Autumn Jones, Dylan Baddour

$A fracking site is situated on the outskirts of town in the Permian Basin oil field on Jan. 21, 2016 in the oil town of Midland, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images$

Fracking Waste Gets a Second Look to Ease Looming West Texas Water Shortage

By Dylan Baddour

Q&A: Robert Bullard Led a ‘Huge’ Delegation from Texas to COP27 Climate Talks in Egypt

By Dylan Baddour

Biden Administration Quietly Approves Huge Oil Export Project Despite Climate Rhetoric

By Dylan Baddour

$Workers at a fracking rig in Midland. Studies have linked disposal of fracking wastewater with an increase in seismic activity in Texas, and the Texas Railroad Commission is now investigating a 5.4 magnitude quake that struck West Texas this week. Credit: Jerod Foster for The Texas Tribune$

Texas Oil and Gas Agency Investigating 5.4 Magnitude Earthquake in West Texas, the Largest in Three Decades

By Erin Douglas, The Texas Tribune and Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News

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