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Schneider: Stop denials on ‘frackquakes’; preserve local ordinances
Austin American-Statesman Op-Ed: Scientists have finally begun to confirm what many Texans have long suspected – the oil and gas drilling technology known as “fracking” and the disposal of fracking wastes has likely caused earthquakes in North Texas.
Austin’s next big zero-waste project is feeding nature’s recycling program
Austin Chronicle: Keeping organics out of the landfill is the next frontier for Austin Resource Recovery, which will this year propose to City Council a new residential collection program.
2 years after West explosion, little regulation proposed
KVUE News Austin: Two years after the West explosion, some watchdog groups say the state has done little to improve safety involving chemical facilities.
Overnight Vigil Held at Texas Capitol
Protesters across Texas erected an 18-foot mock fracking rig with a flare to protest HB 40, which would drastically limit local regulations on oil and gas extraction activities.
City’s One Bin proposals raise financial, technology concerns
Houston Chronicle: The fate of the city’s cutting-edge “one bin” waste system that would feature a privately built, $100 million sorting facility is becoming increasingly uncertain.
Fracking bills in Legislature fuel city-control debate
Dallas Morning News: It was standing room only at a House hearing on two bills that would restrict how cities can regulate oil and gas activities.
Organizations Call on Dollar Stores to Protect Communities of Color and Low-Income Families
NorthDallasGazette.com: The new report found that the vast majority of dollar store products tested contained toxic chemicals linked to learning disabilities, cancer, diabetes and other serious illnesses.
Bag ban, local control made our town cleaner
Darren Hodges: Some people who call themselves conservatives are trying to tell Fort Stockton and other communities that we are not allowed to solve our own problems in our own ways.
Doctors’ groups press EPA for much stricter federal ozone limit
Dallas Morning News: The top doctors’ organizations in Texas and Dallas County, along with other groups and individuals, pressed hard on Thursday for a much tougher federal limit on ozone, or smog.
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