COVID-19 Update: Lake Houston area coronavirus cases inch toward 15,000
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People line up on the concourse of Minute Maid Park to get their COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. Houston s mega vaccination site at administered 5000 COVID vaccines on Saturday.Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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People line up outside Minute Maid Park for their COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. The mega-distribution site administered 5000 COVID vaccines on Saturday.Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner addresses the media after touring Houston s mega vaccination site at Minute Maid Park on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. The site administered 5000 COVID vaccines.Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
COVID Help Desk: Answering your questions on vaccine ingredients, allergies and more
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A nurse measures vaccine doses before administering them at Minute Maid Park Jan. 16. The city has now launched a drive-thru site at Delmar Stadium with United Memorial Medical Center. The site only is open to people with appointments.Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Registered nurse Wanda Parker prepares a dose of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for Houston Fire Department District 20 Chief Patrick Rocha Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, at Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital in Houston. Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital started vaccinating Houston firefighters last week.Yi-Chin Lee, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
Houston ISD trustees break deadlock, choose longtime educator Allen as board president
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Houston ISD trustees chose Pat Allen, pictured at left in January 2020, as the school board’s president Thursday, breaking a stalemate over the position. Allen served as a teacher and administrator in HISD for 35 years prior to her retirement and subsequent election to the board.Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
Houston ISD trustees picked longtime educator Pat Allen as the district’s board president Thursday, breaking a stalemate that highlighted divisions on the governing body.
One week after board members deadlocked on selecting a president despite 10 rounds of voting, Allen narrowly emerged with the most support Thursday under a ranked-choice system employed by trustees. Allen, who worked in HISD as a teacher and administrator for 35 years, will take over as the district starts a superintendent search, continues to navigate the COVID-19 pandem
Toxic substance or water supply?
Lawmakers to weigh whether wastewater from oil fields could replenish the state s aquifers
BY ERIN DOUGLAS, Texas Tribune
Jan. 21, 2021
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FILE photo- Drilling and natural fracking wells in the Haynesville shale in East Texas lead by Exxon Mobile and XO Energy on Tuesday, July 19, 2016.Elizabeth Conley, Staff photographer / Staff photographer
But that’s not all that comes up out of the earth.
Salty, contaminated water held in porous rocks formed hundreds of millions of years ago is also drawn to the surface during oil production. Before an oil price war and the coronavirus pandemic caused prices to crash in March, Texas wells were producing more than 26 million barrels of the ancient and contaminated water a day, according to an analysis by S&P Global Platts.
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