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Cleaning Fracking’s Waste Stream in Texas Could Require More Power Than Most U.S. States

By Dylan Baddour & Inside Climate News ● Energy ● March 31, 2025

One company, Natura Resources, wants small nuclear reactors to power the energy-intensive process of purifying vast volumes of toxic “produced water” for use in agriculture and industry.

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Welcome to Total’s ‘Petro City’: Arlington, Texas

By Tom Brown ● Energy ● August 23, 2023

In this heavily drilled North Texas city, a UK-based investigative reporter finds echoes of TotalEnergie’s oil exploitation of Nigeria, Iraq, and Kurdistan.

Bridge to the Ancestors: Indigenous Run Decries Colonial Violence in Texas

By Greg Harman ● Reportando ● March 28, 2023

Racist mascots. Fossil fuel extraction. Murdered and missing indigenous women. Native runners highlight the high cost of continuing colonial domination in the United States and along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

People’s Earth Week: Just Add Wheatpaste

By Common Dreams ● Take Action ● March 14, 2023

What better way to reclaim the radical roots of Earth Day than by simultaneously making the world a more beautiful place?

Premiere: ‘Uncovering the Permian Climate Bomb’

By Rujuta Tamakuwala ● March 8, 2023

A 22-year-old activist confronts the world’s largest source of climate pollution.

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Messing with Texas: The Big Stories to Watch in 2022

By Greg Harman ● Texas ● January 24, 2022

Texas-based reporters, activists, and academics told us what they’re watching—or hope to be watching —in 2022.

Carbon Metrics Can Cloud the Changes We Actually Need

By Marisol Cortez ● Decolonial ● October 24, 2021

“Better and richer strategies [for addressing climate crisis] require a different way of thinking and knowing as well as active engagement to reclaim and conserve the spaces where these alternatives can grow and flourish.”