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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Carlos Nogueras Ramos

Texas lawmakers want to halt plan to build high-voltage transmission lines across the state

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ODESSA — A growing chorus of Texas lawmakers is calling on the state’s electric grid managers and utility regulators to halt an expansive and increasingly controversial project to build transmission lines that would cut through several thousand acres of private property to deliver electricity to oil companies in the West Texas oil fields.

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