SocraticGadfly: Texas environmental news roundup

February 16, 2026

Texas environmental news roundup

Does radioactivity from oil waste threaten a school in Johnson County? That's the Observer discussing the issue;

The Barbed Wire has something even more in-depth. As both note, there's also a 2,500-home residential development in the area. And, the whistleblower about the situation, Mike Oldham, has credible medical history about how the radioactivity has affected him from his time in burying that waste.

That story notes that the county is actually investigating, with someone who has relevant background.

The piece also notes that people who know, from another fracking state like Pennsylvania, think HOW the waste got there is fucking nuts. 

Will Hawk Dunlap talk more about radioactivity and oilfield waste between now and election day? (Living in a small county, I'll likely be voting the GOP ballot due to contested local elections; assuming I do, I definitely vote him on the RRC election.) 

Downwinders at Risk are among Texas environmental nonprofits kneecapped by EPA grant cuts

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