Sixty days and 1,182 bills later, state legislators take a pass on oil and gas reforms.
The data is clear: The village of Loving in the Permian Basin has been hit hard by waves of pollutants from Big Oil, yet the EPA hasn’t acted to force a cleanup.
But a tax break for low-producing stripper wells gets slipped into a package with green energy breaks.
Lawmakers complain of last-second changes and a lack of transparency surrounding the reappropriation of $50 million in funding.