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Tag Archives: Harold Simmons

by Forrest Wilder

Speaker Joe Straus Opens the Door to ‘High-Level’ Radioactive Waste in Texas

Fri, Jan 31, 2014 |

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

Containers of radioactive waste at the Waste Control Specialists' dump in Andrews, Texas.

by Forrest Wilder

UPDATED: Problems With a West Texas Radioactive Waste Dump Get Buried

Wed, Jul 3, 2013 |

Instead of a public airing, problems with a burgeoning West Texas nuclear dump often get buried....Read More

by Forrest Wilder

Harold Simmons Wins Another Favor from the Lege

Tue, May 21, 2013 |

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

by Forrest Wilder

Texas Senate OKs ‘Hotter’ Waste for West Texas

Tue, Apr 23, 2013 |

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

by Forrest Wilder

Lawmaker Wants to Limit Challenges to Harold Simmons’ Radioactive Waste Dump

Mon, Feb 25, 2013 |

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

by Forrest Wilder

Burying the Opposition

A plan for radioactive waste burial is so bad even some TCEQ staffers think it should be killed. Fat chance.

Fri, Dec 14, 2007 |

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

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