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This is what we mean by the idea of a stolen future: the U.S. government is ripping up a system that makes it possible (with unprecedented accuracy!) to get out ahead of the weather. Why? Because...

Texas folks, consider submitting a comment before the deadline tomorrow (June 16th)! Submitted a brief one calling to extend the comment window, feel free to share this graphic with a QR code as the website is hard to find: See futureheist.org/tceq-produce... & futureheist.org/tceq-produce...

"Say my house burns down under mysterious circumstances (grease fire in the living room?), and police charge my neighbor with arson. It would look awfully suspicious if I then bankrolled my neighbor’s legal defense — as if we were colluding to burn down my house and collect the insurance money."

"State environmental regulators are preparing to take another critical step toward allowing treated oilfield wastewater to be spread on Texas farmland," Alejandra Martinez writes in the Trib. www.texastribune.org/2026/06/12/t...

A Permian Basin pastor and oil and gas veteran whose church parking lot filled with oil wastewater is looking on the bright side: "This was kind of a good thing because it brought attention to what’s happening,” David Tucker told psskow.bsky.social. insideclimatenews.org/news/1106202...

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Last year, Texas lawmakers gave near-total immunity from lawsuit to companies spreading nominally-treated oil wastewater on Texas farmland and by Texas rivers — provided they followed lenient rules, like dumping it more than 100 feet from creeks or a few hundred feet from homes and wells.

Last year, Texas lawmakers made it far harder for people to sue over harms caused when companies spread this stuff on farmland. Provided, that is, that the companies follow state rules. Rules which are currently very lenient. And which you can still comment on for 7 more days. Here's how.

Bo French, an opponent of the oil and gas industry cleaning up its waste who was sponsored by fracking billionaires Wilks and Dunn, won his race for the Republican nomination for the open seat on the state oil regulator Tuesday night. insideclimatenews.org/news/2705202...

My "not going to drain the great salt lake with my data center" T-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by grist.org/business/uta...

A celeb-backed data center in Utah would be the biggest on the planet, using more electricity than the rest of the state uses today — and spiking nighttime temps by 28 degrees. The project, sitting by the vanishing Great Salt Lake, needs as much water as 20,000 homes. futureheist.org/re/00902c04

After years of lobbying by chemical and fossil-fuel industries, Trump and RFK Jr. are weakening federal PFAS ("forever chemical") standards—especially for GenX, which easily enters water and damages the liver at very low doses.

The scheme is pretty simple: take the oil and gas, spin off a shell company which owns the trash and depleted wells, then let the shells go bankrupt. And if you think New Mexico is bad ...

4/5 of the fastest growing cities in the U.S. are sprawling into the old Barnett Shale, where tens of millions of tons of oilfield waste was spread on farms and buried and pits. There are no maps of where this stuff is.

Pakistan is on track to get nearly all its electricity from renewables by 2040. The reason: practicality, not morals. Imported fuel swallows up cash and keeps the power system in debt. Texas could do this too, except ... futureheist.org/re/56a72d8f

As the ocean rises, New York is one of the most exposed cities in the world, with 1 million-plus living in or near floodplains. Some of its poorest neighborhoods are both prone to flood — and full of people who can't afford to leave. Now imagine how bad things are in Houston.

Fish farms produce staggering amounts of waste — but seaweed can help. One seaweed varietal wiped fish-farm ammonia to below detectable levels; another pulled out CO2 and added oxygen. The result for a hungry world: more protein, more farmer income, less toxic load.

An area almost as large as Alaska burned worldwide just four months — a stark example of how wildfires are now burning at twice the normal pace worldwide. Now a powerful El Niño — which makes conditions even hotter and drier — is priming ever more of the planet to burn. futureheist.org/re/d08d86e2