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TCEQ has shut down STEERS, its e-filing system, "to ensure all applications are reviewed by agency staff to determine if they are related to data centers." That's two days after our report with @publiccitizen.bsky.social. We caught them doing something they shouldn't have. 🧵

These were regulatory approvals that allowed construction on over 5.9 square miles of land across Texas. We don't know if these data centers are complying with the suspensions. TCEQ needs to send inspectors to make sure they are.

TCEQ has shut down STEERS, its e-filing system, "to ensure all applications are reviewed by agency staff to determine if they are related to data centers." That's two days after our report with @publiccitizen.bsky.social. We caught them doing something they shouldn't have. 🧵

On October 19th, the day we published our report, TCEQ's interim director wrote to the Governor that the agency had paused. Yet that very same day, TCEQ approved a concrete batch plant at the Stargate campus in Abilene. Its own record names the site "OPEN AI."

TCEQ has shut down STEERS, its e-filing system, "to ensure all applications are reviewed by agency staff to determine if they are related to data centers." That's two days after our report with @publiccitizen.bsky.social. We caught them doing something they shouldn't have. 🧵

New report: Ohio recorded 2,529 oil and gas incidents from 2015 through 2025, rising from 103 a year to 268. With @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social, we went through ten years of ODNR records. Oversight isn't keeping up. 🧵 fractracker.org/2026/10/ohio...

Bev Reed of @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social, on a Marietta well ODNR visited 20 times: "If I get a traffic ticket… I have to pay it within two weeks' time or they're going to escalate. That's not the case with these oil and gas companies, and that's not right."

New report: Ohio recorded 2,529 oil and gas incidents from 2015 through 2025, rising from 103 a year to 268. With @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social, we went through ten years of ODNR records. Oversight isn't keeping up. 🧵 fractracker.org/2026/10/ohio...

And the violations ODNR does write are mostly paperwork, like not reporting production numbers or letting insurance lapse.

New report: Ohio recorded 2,529 oil and gas incidents from 2015 through 2025, rising from 103 a year to 268. With @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social, we went through ten years of ODNR records. Oversight isn't keeping up. 🧵 fractracker.org/2026/10/ohio...

ODNR has about 25 inspectors and Ohio has about 96,000 active wells. We looked at how long inspections take and figured each inspector would need something like 664 workdays to get to all of them once, so it's 2.5+ work years before anyone checks the same well again.

New report: Ohio recorded 2,529 oil and gas incidents from 2015 through 2025, rising from 103 a year to 268. With @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social, we went through ten years of ODNR records. Oversight isn't keeping up. 🧵 fractracker.org/2026/10/ohio...

☢️The fracking company CNX is expanding a voluntary radiation monitoring program. We are skeptical that "Radical Transparency" can be achieved through voluntary industry initiatives, and think we need much more scrutiny of radioactive dangers fractracker.org/2026/09/cnxs...

Much of the radioactivity of fracking waste is alpha and beta radiation, radon, particulate matter. Monitoring gamma radiation is one step in the right direction, but not enough to quantify the full harm and risks a program that deems radioactive waste "safe".

“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.” — Wendell Berry (1934-2026)

A poet, farmer, and environmental advocate, Wendell Berry was a powerful ethical voice who reminded us of the consequences of pollution and waste from extractive industry.

“Essentially the same thing.” PA oil & gas reps are asking why brine from existing wells can’t be treated as “mineral brine.” @paenvironmentnews.bsky.social reports, they’re discussing repermitting wells so brine “can be used for other applications”, including spreading on roads.

Our analysis found nearly 50,000 conventional PA wells reported production but no waste in 2025. Research has found salts, metals and radioactive radium in conventional oil & gas brine, including radium in runoff from brine-treated roads. fractracker.org/2026/08/penn...

Pennsylvania's oil and gas wells reported 3 billion gallons of liquid waste last year. One sample tested at nearly 2,000x EPA's drinking-water limit for radium. Thanks to a 1980 loophole, that's not classified as hazardous waste. Read the report from Matt Kelso: fractracker.org/2026/08/penn...

Six months after crude oil spilled into a Ventura County tributary, residents are still questioning the cleanup, testing, and true scale of the spill.

AI doesn’t run on the cloud. It runs on power. As data centers spread across the U.S., companies are turning to natural gas to meet massive energy demands fast, bringing new concerns around emissions, water, land use, and community impacts. www.businessinsider.com/ai-data-cent...

ICYMI: Climate and environmental justice advocates gathered at the California State Capitol to oppose Trump’s “Drill Baby Drill” agenda and call on state leaders to stop expediting oil permits in Kern County. www.elkgrovenews.net/advocates-ur...