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A small oil company polluted Midland’s water reserve. The cleanup has dragged on for years.
Cleaning up oilfield pollution in arid West Texas is costly and complicated. The bankruptcy process allows companies to move on while the public pays the price.
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Trump, atoms, AI and the Texas data center gusher
Fermi America wants to build a massive private nuclear-powered energy grid for artificial intelligence. Can the brassy avatar of Trump’s risk-taking tech economy survive?
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Diane Wilson takes on another plastics plant in Texas
Diane Wilson, the prominent Gulf Coast environmentalist, filed a legal notice of intent on Wednesday to sue Dow for alleged large-scale discharges of plastic pellets from its 4,700-acre petrochemical complex outside Seadrift, Texas.
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Fracking waste threatens Permian Basin water supplies, imperils oil industry plans
Drilling is producting massive amounts of wastewater. That has regulators and companies scrambling for places to put it.
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Not all drilling in Texas is about oil
The state has become a hub of innovation for creating electricity using geothermal power. Just don’t call it renewable.
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Kerr County was among dozens of Texas communities to turn down state flood money, saying it wasn’t enough
Texas earmarked $1.4 billion to help fund flood prevention projects. But after learning that so many communities turned down the money, two lawmakers who approved the program acknowledged it was flawed.
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Republican split widens as Texas regulator bashes carbon capture
A growing number of GOP elected officials question the use of carbon capture and storage for oil and gas projects.
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