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Texas Still Issues Thousands of Permits for Natural Gas Flaring

Advocates say the Texas Railroad Commission process is more of a "rubber stamp" for oil and gas companies to keep polluting indefinitely.

Texas Observer

Jim Jordan, Newt Gingrich and history

Every Republican speaker since the rise of Newt has been an incompetent troll — or a felon. Jordan's no big change

Salon

Houseboat debris clean up to take days after police tow line snapped

Rough sea conditions deemed 'too dangerous' for another tow attempt.

Newcastle Herald

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McCarthy's fall marks new low in the speakership's declining status

The status of the speakership has been declining for years. McCarthy's ouster is an extreme example in a sequence of events that have made the speaker more vulnerable — and thus weaker.

WEKU

Oilfield companies helped to craft Texas’ new waste rules for 2 years before the public got to see them

The effort to update the state’s oilfield waste disposal rules was initiated by Railroad Commissioner Jim Wright, one of the state’s top oil and gas regulators who has investments in the industry.

The Texas Tribune

For Texans, fighting state-regulated oilfield waste dumps can be a costly, do-it-yourself effort

Some Texans who challenge oil and gas waste sites must spend significant sums and time on investigating what they say the Texas Railroad Commission should examine. Will new regulations for handling waste increase oversight or just maintain the status quo?

The Texas Tribune

Rescue crews on duty as boaters make the most of 'last long weekend'

The boating season wraps up on Anzac Day.

Newcastle Herald

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Editorial: Unprecedented and trivial? Trump's protestations don't match the historical record

To hear it from Donald Trump and his supporters, his prosecution in New York is an unprecedented abuse of the court system for political ends based on the most trivial of charges. Trump, of course, uses far more colorful language to make that point, but even former Vice President Mike…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Two men rescued from 'the drink' after boat capsizes off Swansea Heads

"Three big waves came in succession and the boat went over."

Newcastle Herald

Company that wants to build oilfield dump in East Texas gave $53,750 in campaign donations to regulators

McBride Operating LLC and its owner, Joseph McBride, contributed to the political campaigns of the three commissioners on the Texas Railroad Commission now considering his request.

The Texas Tribune

In East Texas, a town fights to keep an oilfield waste dump from opening near wetlands and water wells

The Texas Railroad Commission has rejected the proposal twice over water contamination concerns, but locals are dismayed that the commissioners keep giving the developer more chances to alter its application.

The Texas Tribune

Last Hawaiian princess dies with wife by her side at America's only royal residence

The last of a line stretching back 100 years, Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa passed away at her home ʻIolani Palace in Honolulu, Hawaii, US

Daily Mirror

Kawānanakoa, 'last Hawaiian princess' dies at 96

Abigail Kawānanakoa, the so-called last Hawaiian princess whose lineage included the royal family that once ruled the islands and an Irish businessman who became one of Hawaii’s largest landowners, died on Sunday

The Independent UK

One less hurdle to navigate in an emergency for Marine Rescue volunteers

Volunteers at Marine Rescue Lake Macquarie will have one less hurdle to navigate as the state government kicks in more than $636,000 to fix the access road to the base.

Newcastle Herald

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