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Texas Commission Weighs Four Requests to Import Radioactive Waste Oct. 22

The commission that controls which out-of-state radioactive waste may be buried in West Texas meets Oct. 22 in Andrews and votes on four requests to bring more of it in — from a Florida nuclear plant, a Michigan one, a materials processor and a waste treatment company added to the agenda at the last minute.

The Texas Dispatch · Oct 21, 2026

School Land Board Opens Lease-Sale Bids and 29 Drilling-Unit Requests Oct. 20

The School Land Board, the five-member panel that sets what oil companies pay to drill under land owned by the Texas public school fund, meets Oct. 20 in a specially called session to open the bids from that same morning's online lease sale and to clear 29 applications from operators working the Permian Basin, South Texas and the East Texas fields.

The Texas Dispatch · Oct 19, 2026