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Fracking in Dallas - Report Release

DALLAS - Texas environmentalists are in Dallas asking city leaders to rethink fracking. Environment Texas released a report today, criticizing energy for their fracking techniques.

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Fracking Boom Carries Hidden Costs to Taxpayers

The oil and gas drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing – or fracking for short – can lower housing property values, run up costs of road repairs and ring up new costs for water infrastructure, says a critical report released Thursday by Environment Texas and Environment America.

The report, “The Costs of Fracking: The Price Tag of Dirty Drilling’s Environmental Damage,” arrives just as the Texas Railroad Commission’s proposed rules for permitting recycling of fracking water are undergoing a public comment period.

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Future of wind power threatened

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Activists gathered outside of U.S. Sen. John Cornyn’s office Tuesday afternoon to deliver 2,000 letters from local voters.

Their goal was to convince the Texas Republican to reconsider supporting a bill that would extend tax cuts for renewable energy plants and save up to 7,000 jobs in the wind power industry in Texas.

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Protesters to Cornyn: Support Wind Credits

A small group gathered outside Sen. John Cornyn’s Austin office this afternoon, calling for the renewal of tax credits for wind energy.

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Austin Wind Advocates Protest For Tax Credit Renewal

A small group of demonstrators protested outside of Texas Senator John Cornyn’s Austin office Tuesday afternoon to get him to change his stance on a soon to expire wind production tax credit.

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