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From toilet water to tap water, the new liquid gold of West Texas

Posted in Coal Plants, Water, tagged drinking water, drought, Texas, Water supply on August 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

So after years of diminishing water supplies made even worse by the second-most severe drought in state history, some West Texas communities are resorting to a plan to turn sewage into drinking water. A water-reclamation plant believed to be the first in Texas will supply Big Spring, Midland, Odessa and Stanton and is currently under [...]

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More on radiation in Texas drinking water

Posted in Radiation, tagged drinking water, KHOU, radioactive water, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on May 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Back in November we blogged about a story that KHOU broke in Houston about radioactive contaminants in the Houston area drinking water. Revelations that came to light showed hundreds of water providers around the Gulf Coast region were providing their customers with drinking water that contains radioactive contaminants that raise health risks. State tests by [...]

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Area near Midland, Tx designated superfund site

Posted in Toxics, tagged drinking water, Hexavalent chromium, public citizen texas, Superfund site, United States Environmental Protection Agency on March 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »

After residents report green and yellow-colored well water near an oilfield company’s operation in the spring of 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigated and formally designated an area in Midland as a national Superfund site when the presence of the highly toxic solvent hexavalent chromium was found in groundwater supplies. The Superfund list [...]

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Website offers some details about fracking chemicals: A public education effort or a slick PR campaign to take pressure off the natural gas industry?

Posted in Air Quality, tagged Chemical substance, drinking water, Environmental Protection Agency, Halliburton, hydraulic fracturing on November 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Yesterday, Halliburton unveiled a new website that offers some details about the mix of chemicals used in a natural gas drilling technique following the Environmental Protection Agency‘s (EPA) decision last week to subpoena Halliburton to force the company to turn over information about the chemicals it produces for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Halliburton has said [...]

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GasLand: A Must Watch Documentary

Posted in Energy, Global Warming, natural gas, Renewables, solar, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, documentary, drinking water, faucet on fire, fracking, gasland, HBO, HBO Documentaries, josh fox, Larry King, Larry King Live, natural gas drilling, oil and gas wells, pipe explosion, rig explosion, T. Boone Pickens, water, water on fire, Water Pollution, Water Quality on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A few days ago, Larry King interviewed T. Boone Pickens and if you were watching it, you heard him condemn the spill and the US dependence on oil then he raved about natural gas and how safe it is to drill for it. Pickens is not the first. Many have claimed that natural gas is [...]

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