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Pressure Increases for Texas to Allow Treated Drilling Waste Into Rivers and Rangeland
As oil and gas companies run out of places to put their wastewater, Texas regulators draft permits for treatment and reuse outside the oilfields.
By Martha Pskowski
ORLA, Texas—Elected officials and industry leaders warn that Texas is at the “precipice” of running out of underground space to dispose of the nearly 1 billion gallons of wastewater that oil and gas production generates every day in the Permian Basin.