Tag Archives: Harold Simmons
Speaker Joe Straus Opens the Door to ‘High-Level’ Radioactive Waste in Texas
Even as a low-level radioactive waste dump grows in West Texas, lawmakers are pondering the possibility of making Texas the home to at least some of the nation'...Read More
UPDATED: Problems With a West Texas Radioactive Waste Dump Get Buried
Instead of a public airing, problems with a burgeoning West Texas nuclear dump often get buried....Read More
Harold Simmons Wins Another Favor from the Lege
Every session, Harold Simmons' radioactive waste dump company comes to the Legislature with a new favor to ask. Every session Rep. Lon Burnam, a Fort Worth Demo...Read More
Texas Senate OKs ‘Hotter’ Waste for West Texas
Harold Simmons' West Texas radioactive waste empire got a boost today after the Texas Senate passed legislation allowing Waste Control Specialists to accept "ho...Read More
Lawmaker Wants to Limit Challenges to Harold Simmons’ Radioactive Waste Dump
Citizen challenges to a West Texas radioactive waste dump owned by Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons would be limited under legislation filed by Rep. Drew Darby...Read More
Burying the Opposition
A plan for radioactive waste burial is so bad even some TCEQ staffers think it should be killed. Fat chance.
For more than a decade, Waste Control Specialists has had big plans to build a radioactive waste dump in a desolate corner of the West Texas oil patch....Read More