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Abandoned Oil Well Spreads Toxic Fumes, Dread Across San Antonio Subdivision

As new neighborhoods are built in Texas, residents don’t always know they are living on top of old oilfields.

Texas Observer · Oct 19

Did These North Texas Developers Have a Duty to Disclose Oil and Gas Waste History?

A housing development and school was built atop an old drilling waste site in Johnson County. New test results came back safe, but it’s unclear what the homebuyers had a legal right to know.

Texas Observer · Sep 24

Who Stands Between Texas and a Fascist Railroad Commission?

This man here—and a plurality of voters if he can find them

Texas Observer · Sep 3

How Radioactive Oil and Gas Waste Could Lie Beneath a North Texas Elementary School

A massive Dallas-Fort Worth subdivision and a school have risen atop layers of oil and gas drilling waste. One worker who helped spread the material is speaking out.

Texas Observer · Feb 11

A third of renters could be ‘forced out’ by average rent rise, research finds

Labour says its landmark bill will protect against unfair rent rises – but campaigners say they must go further

The Independent UK · Jun 30, 2025

Texas has thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells. Who is responsible for cleaning them up?

Across Texas, abandoned wells are erupting with chemical-infused liquid and some have created massive lakes of contaminated water. Regulators say they need more money to address the problem.

The Texas Tribune · May 8, 2025

An abandoned West Texas oil well has created a 200-foot-wide sinkhole

The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian Basin.

The Texas Tribune · Mar 18, 2025

Texas regulators overhaul oilfield waste rule for the first time in four decades

The new rule modernizes some aspects of commercial oilfield waste disposal and recycling. But rules for burying oilfield waste on private property remain limited.

The Texas Tribune · Jan 21, 2025

More than 15,000 renters could lose homes before ban on no-fault evictions comes into force

More than 15,600 rental households will be evicted by bailiffs in the first six months of 2025, the Renters Reform Coalition has warned

The Independent UK · Jan 14, 2025

Red Cross decides against suspending Russian branch despite links to Kremlin war machine

RRC appears to defy neutrality principle, as Ukrainian officials criticise ‘weak response’ and accuse Red Cross of being advocate for Russian aggression

The Guardian - UK · Apr 29, 2024