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Daily Dispatch 4/29/24: Toxic Produced Water To Be Dumped In Texas Rivers, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:
Austin Rep. Gina Hinojosa on WFAA's Inside Texas Politics: https://youtu.be/S471DfitaQk?si=70WK-VmY5gW4Ccen
The state is now issuing permits for oil producers to dump millions of gallons of toxic "produced water" into Texas rivers and streams: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/29/texas-treated-produced-water-disposal-discharge-rivers/
...New satellite studies show the ground itself in the Permian Basin sinking and rising with oil extraction and wastewater injection…
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