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Tag Archives: Waste Control Specialists

Donald Trump and Rick Perry

by Naveena Sadasivam

Get Ready, America: Rick Perry’s Environmental and Energy Record is Awful

During his 14 years as governor, Perry attempted to fast-track permits for 11 coal plants and supported building a radioactive waste facility in West Texas.

Wed, Dec 14, 2016 |

To say Rick Perry, Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Energy, has a poor environmental record would be an understatement. The overarching theme of Pe...Read More

Rick Perry at "The Response" in August 2011

by Forrest Wilder

Is Rick Perry Cheerleading for a Nuclear Trans-Texas Corridor?

Fri, Apr 4, 2014 |

The companies angling to build a facility for high-level radioactive waste in Texas have found a high-level cheerleader: Rick Perry. But the idea of making Texa...Read More

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

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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