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Produced water ponds constructed by Martin Water in Lenorah. Credit: Julian Mancha for The Texas Tribune/Inside Climate News
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Over 650 comments poured in. Individual landowners impacted by drilling operations, oil and gas industry groups, and associations representing farmers, ranchers and mineral rights owners all weighed in. Two months later, the three commissioners voted to adopt the final rule.
Virginia Palacios, executive director of Commission Shift, a Laredo-based environmental nonprofit that monitors the commission’s activities, was skeptical that RRC staff had enough time to review and respond to hundreds of public comments in such a short time.
“It seems like they rushed approval at the end of the day,” she said. “I just don’t know if they’ve really taken everything into account that they needed to.”
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