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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
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
Harold & Fraud: Dallas Billionaire Harold Simmons Wins Another Radioactive Favor from TCEQ
Bureaucrats at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will be nervously watching the stock market for the next five years. That’s because the agenc...Read More
Texas Could Foot Bill for Radioactive Waste Dump
Sweetheart deal allows Harold Simmons to reap profits while putting state at risk
It didn’t take long – 11 days to be exact – after Gov. Rick Perry was safely re-elected for the Texas Compact Commission to pass rules potentially ope...Read More
TCEQ Rolls Over for Harold Simmons
With $4.2 million, you too can buy yourself a state agency.
In a perfect illustration of its priorities, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has agreed to let Waste Control Specialists keep radioactive waste th...Read More
Radioactive Waste Dump over Ogallala Aquifer?
Six years later, Waste Control still doesn't know if its radioactive waste dump sits on Ogallala Aquifer
You’d think after six years of intensive study, Waste Control Specialists would have some idea whether or not their radioactive waste dump near Andrews is goi...Read More
Water, Water Everywhere
In 2007, geologists for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality told their bosses that a proposal for a radioactive waste dump in West Texas was fatally f...Read More
‘Even the Mafia Was More Circumspect’
Glenn Shankle goes from regulator to lobbyist.
Glenn Shankle signed on as a lobbyist for Waste Control Specialists, the company recently licensed by TCEQ to build a massive radioactive waste dump in West Tex...Read More