Jim Malewitz

Texas Counties Trying To Kill Effort To Allow Public Access To Court Records

Texas counties are trying to kill an effort to allow public access to court records from all 254 counties through an online portal, and they’ve found friendly ears in the Legislature.

Texas Counties Trying To Kill Effort To Allow Public Access To Court Records

(REPORT) --- Nathan Hecht, chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, has noticed a curious trend in the state’s legal system: Folks are increasingly representing themselves in legal disputes, forgoing lawyers altogether. “They really need legal help, but they

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Trump Team Confirms Plans To Drop Key Claim Against Texas Voter ID Law

The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed Monday it plans to ditch its longstanding position that Texas lawmakers purposefully discriminated against minority voters by passing the nation’s strictest voter identification law in 2011.

Trump Team Confirms Plans To Drop Key Claim Against Texas Voter ID Law

(REPORT) --- The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday ditched its longstanding position that Texas lawmakers purposefully discriminated against minority voters by passing the nation’s strictest voter identification law in 2011. The move came one day before a federal judge was scheduled to hear arguments on that high-stakes

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Latest Texas Mosque Fire Ruled Arson

Investigators said Wednesday that someone intentionally set the fire that destroyed a mosque two weeks ago in Victoria, the South Texas town that has since rallied around its Muslim community.

Latest Texas Mosque Fire Ruled Arson

(REPORT) --- Investigators said Wednesday that someone intentionally set the fire that destroyed a mosque two weeks ago in Victoria, the South Texas town that has since rallied around its Muslim community. But experts still don’t know who set the blaze, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said in a news release.

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Abandoned Texas Oil Wells Seen As “Ticking Time Bombs” Of Contamination

Texas is among several states grappling with a surge of abandoned drilling sites and dwindling funds to clean them up.

Abandoned Texas Oil Wells Seen As “Ticking Time Bombs” Of Contamination

IMPERIAL (REPORT) — Peculiar things can happen after folks drill deep into the earth — looking for oil, water or whatever — and leave a bunch of holes in the ground. Fluids can gurgle and leak, migrating where they don’t belong. In rare instances, land could even

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Texas Found 276 Cases Of Groundwater Contamination Last Year

Texas regulators have allowed energy companies in recent years to inject toxic materials into at least a “handful” of underground sources of drinking water, records show.

Texas Found 276 Cases Of Groundwater Contamination Last Year

State regulators last year documented 276 new cases of groundwater contamination across Texas, a slight increase compared to 2014 but far fewer than in years past. That’s according to the annual “Joint Groundwater Monitoring and Contamination Report” published last week

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EPA: North Texas Earthquakes Likely Linked To Fracking

Texas, home to thousands of such wells, is the third-most at-risk state for man-made earthquakes, according to the U.S. Geological Survey — behind only Oklahoma and Kansas.

EPA: North Texas Earthquakes Likely Linked To Fracking

Federal regulators believe “there is a significant possibility” that recent earthquakes in North Texas are linked to oil and gas activity, even if state regulators won’t say so. That’s according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s annual evaluation of how the Texas Railroad Commission oversees thousands of injection and disposal wells

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