Newsletter
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If it seems like you're seeing more flares, it's because you are
By dwray in The nature of things
Since the Eagle Ford Shale play started booming, I'll bet you've noticed the flares. It's an unsettling moment, glancing out the car window and seeing pillars of fire dotting the rolling plains. Oil companies put in the flares to burn ...
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Oil for $50 a barrel? It could happen
By dwray in The nature of things
For the past year I've been reporting on the Eagle Ford Shale oil boom . With oil prices hovering around $100 a barrel, most industry insiders were optimistic about the boom. Though shale wells are expensive to drill, with such ...
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Feds won't be protecting the dune sagebrush lizard
By dwray in The nature of things
Maybe you've never heard about the sand dune lizard aka the dunes sagebrush lizard that is found in only New Mexico and the edge of Texas, but I've been following the debate over whether or not to protect these creatures ...
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Citizen Kane is on the big screen again ... and as mysterious as ever
By dwray in The nature of things
The mystery begins with a single word. “Rosebud,” the dying man whispers, as a glass globe slips from his hand and shatters on the floor. Newspaper magnet Charles Foster Kane wheezes the word out with his last breath and we ...
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So flame retardant sandwiches are a thing?
By dwray in The nature of things
Maybe it's just because I'm hungry, but it seems like there's a lot of chatter about the stuff in our food today. The corn lobby worked hard to get high fructose corn syrup renamed "corn sugar" but the FDA was ...
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By dwray in The nature of things
Fracking sure is a touchy subject. In December 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered Range Resources to take immediate steps to protect the families in two homes in Parker County. The residents were living near fracked wells and had noticed ...
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California may have itself a fracking bill
By dwray in The nature of things
The Golden State may not be the one you generally associate with oil and natural gas. I too think of Hollywood and the movie "Vertigo" before oil ever crosses my mind. But they do have energy production. California is the ...
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Marcus Washington Memorial Fund
By dwray in The nature of things
Marcus Washington was found dead in his jail cell over the weekend. Washington was in federal custody after he allegedly fired a gun in the gymnasium of Victoria College last September. Washington's family remembers a different person from the man ...
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All kinds of environment goodness from the web world
By dwray in The nature of things
There are a million nifty things being reported out there in the wide world of energy and the environment. If you haven't checked out the series on the drought being put on by StateImpact and PBS Newshour you oughta check ...
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The kindness of strangers: It really is a thing
By dwray in The nature of things
As a reporter, I cover the news. If something bad happens, it's me or one of my colleagues out there finding out what happened and bringing the information back to the public. So finding myself suddenly becoming news last week ...