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While filling a cattle trough 15 months ago, Ashley Murray noticed something odd occurring in the shack housing her family’s water pump. High-pressure…
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This year state lawmakers severely restricted the ability of Texas towns to regulate local oil and gas drilling. A law known as House Bill 40 was a...
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The North Texas City of Denton made headlines last year when voters there banned the oil drilling technique known as fracking. Early this morning, the...
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Lawyers for Texas and its powerful oil and gas industry won’t let Denton out of their sights – even after the North Texas city conceded that the…
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When voters in Denton banned the oil drilling technique called fracking there last year, the North Texas city took center stage in a national debate...
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Frustrated and grasping for options that weren't apparent, Denton residents flooded a city council meeting Tuesday night to assess where things stand…
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Seven months after a rag-tag group of local activists scored a surprising victory over the state’s powerful oil and gas industry by convincing voters in…
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Nearly seven months after voters made it the first Texas town to ban hydraulic fracturing, Denton is poised to be fracked again.Vantage Energy plans to…
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Saying Texas needs to avoid a “patchwork of local regulations” that threaten oil and gas production, Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday signed legislation that…
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The so-called Denton fracking bill is headed to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. The Senate on Monday approved House Bill 40, which would pre-empt local efforts…
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A Fort Worth-based oil and gas company may continue seeking defamation damages from a Parker County man who claimed its drilling fouled his well, but may…
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A couple of significant news developments transformed what was supposed to be a broad discussion of energy policy Friday.The Texas House approved the…