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

by Forrest Wilder

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

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by Forrest Wilder

Texas Could Foot Bill for Radioactive Waste Dump

Sweetheart deal allows Harold Simmons to reap profits while putting state at risk

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TCEQ Rolls Over for Harold Simmons

With $4.2 million, you too can buy yourself a state agency.

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Radioactive Waste Dump over Ogallala Aquifer?

Six years later, Waste Control still doesn't know if its radioactive waste dump sits on Ogallala Aquifer

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Inside this month's print issue

Lost Children—A Texas Tragedy

A riveting new book about foster care and adoption exposes just how the state lost six kids to out-of-state mothers who murdered them.

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Jun 10, 2009

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by Forrest Wilder

‘Even the Mafia Was More Circumspect’

Glenn Shankle goes from regulator to lobbyist.

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