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New today: Analysis by @saulelbein.bsky.social, who has spent years documenting dangerous "zombie" oil wells, found more than 25,000 plugged wells across Texas are at critical risk of failure—50 times more than had previously been reported. This map helps you find them.

texasobserver.org1.2 Million Oil Wells Are Buried Underneath Texas. Do You Live on Top of a Dangerous One?Our state's homes are built above a hundred years of drilling by an industry that was never made to clean up after itself.

9/9/26, 2:00 pm19 reposts31 likes

Kim

@kimoco.bsky.social

9 Sept

Texas seems to be an anti-regulation type of state. This is the obvious results.

The Organizing School

@organizingschool.bsky.social

9 Sept

What regulatory paradise are y’all from?

Mars Rover

@marsrover.bsky.social

10 Sept

This has been a problem for many years, just like the state's thousands of poor condition, uninspected dams. In both cases no one gives a hoot until a disaster costs a rich landowner some money, & what do you expect from a legacy of slaveholders & their bootlickers?