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This article is part five of “State of Denial,” a series by Inside Climate News about Texas’ lax environmental regulations.
In the early 2000s, the city of Midland, Texas, detected contaminated well water on its T-Bar Ranch property, which it purchased as a source of drinking water back in 1965. The pollution was eventually traced to a spill of produced water, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling.
