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2Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

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Waste Control Specialists site

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

Waste-Control-site

by Forrest Wilder

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

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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

Harold & Fraud: Dallas Billionaire Harold Simmons Wins Another Radioactive Favor from TCEQ

by Forrest Wilder

Leave a comment | Tue, Feb 7, 2012

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

by Forrest Wilder

Leave a comment | Tue, Nov 30, 2010

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.

by Forrest Wilder

Leave a comment | Fri, Sep 10, 2010

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

by Forrest Wilder

Leave a comment | Thu, Jun 10, 2010

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

by Forrest Wilder

Water, Water Everywhere

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Wed, Jun 10, 2009 |

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.

by Forrest Wilder

Leave a comment | Tue, Apr 14, 2009

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

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