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Wichita Falls’ harrowing experience with a five-year drought that began in 2010 could help other Texas communities through future water crises. Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed into law a measure that puts the state on the path to developing water resources through Direct Potable Reuse projects. Direct Potable Reuse (DPR) means processing effluent sewer water for immediate use as drinking water. When Wichita Falls hurried a DPR system into use during the drought, the city made headlines across the country as the city that drinks “potty water.” But it worked and now Wichita Falls can maintain a steady level of potable water into Lake Arrowhead, the primary water reservoir. ....
The 87 th Legislative Session s filing deadline of March 12, 2021 has come and gone, giving us an opportunity to survey the full suite of environmental bills – air, water, waste, procedural – that will be considered, debated, and voted upon by state lawmakers by the end of June. Below, we detail the proposed House and Senate budgets for Article VI (Natural Resource) agencies, and discuss some of the most important pieces of legislation under consideration at the Capitol. You can access a list of bill summaries using this link. Last summer, the palpable concern was that COVID-19 restrictions would wipe out the state budget. In July 2020, the Comptroller conservatively estimated a ....
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The 87th Legislative Session’s filing deadline of March 12, 2021 has come and gone, giving us an opportunity to survey the full suite of environmental bills – air, water, waste, procedural – that will be considered, debated, and voted upon by state lawmakers by the end of June.
Aggregates and Associated Industries House Bill 4341 (Biedermann): would create an aggregate production operation program at the Texas Railroad Commission, thereby transferring certain duties from the TCEQ; if passed into law, the act would take effect upon the date the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency delegates permitting authority to the Railroad Commission. ....
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending January 15th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US fell by 187 billion cubic feet to 3,009 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies just 36 billion cubic feet, or 1.2% higher than the 3,045 billion cubic feet that were in storage on January 15th of last year, but still 198 billion cubic feet, or 7.0% above the five-year average of 2,811 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 15th of January in recent years..the 187 billion cubic feet that were drawn out of US natural gas storage this week was 10 billion cubic feet more than the average forecast of a 177 billion cubic foot withdrawal from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, and way more than the 97 billion cubic foot withdrawal from natural gas storage seen during the corresponding week of a year earlier, as well as more than the average withdrawal of 167 billion ....
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 FacebookTwitterEmail 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. ....