"Texas Is The Next Battleground For The Green New Deal"
"Sunrise Movement is taking the fight to Big Oil’s home turf, endorsing another insurgent Democrat and going all in on three House races in the Lone Star State."
Source: HuffPost, 02/17/2020
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"Something in the Air"
"In the Texas Panhandle, which produces a fifth of the U.S. beef supply, communities are being choked by fecal dust from nearby feedlots. The state’s regulatory agency isn’t doing anything about it—and it’s about to get a whole lot worse."
Source: Texas Observer, 02/04/2020
"Race Is On To Find Uses For Wastewater From Fracking"
"In the Permian Basin, now the most prolific oil field in the world, hundreds of miles of plastic pipelines snake along dirt roads, drilling pads and the edges of farm fields. But they are not carrying oil. They’re transporting an another precious commodity in this arid region on the New Mexico-Texas border: water."
Source: Searchlight New Mexico, 02/04/2020
"Big Oil Wants To Dump More Wastewater Into Rivers. What Could Go Wrong?"
"For more than six months, twin brothers Ronald and Donald Schweitzer have watched large amounts of salty wastewater bubble up from the ground in their wheat field. The “saltwater purge” has killed three trees and several acres of crops on their northwest Oklahoma farm."
Source: Grist, 01/23/2020
"Politics: Texas Elections Could Upend U.S. Oil And Gas"
"The 2020 election could be a pivotal moment for the oil industry in Texas, and thus the rest of the U.S. energy sector."
Source: EnergyWire, 01/21/2020
The Journalism Student Who Went Down a Rabbit Hole and Came Up a Mine Shaft
A young journalist looking for a quick report found himself instead on a five-month odyssey to cover the hidden dangers of abandoned mining sites in the Southwest — then picked up a Society of Environmental Journalists’ student award in the aftermath. How this student’s persistence paid off, in the latest EJ Academy.
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ASU’s Cronkite News Service Cleans Up in SEJ Student Awards
One journalism school seems to have hit on a formula for success in generating award-winning student reporting on the environment. EJ Academy editor Bob Wyss on why Arizona State’s Cronkite News Service cleaned up in this year’s Society of Environmental Journalists’ student awards category.
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