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    Fracking Fact-Finding Mission

    New study links declining North Texas ozone to oil and gas production

    Claire St. Amant
    Apr 14, 2014 | 2:53 pm
    Smog in Dallas, Texas
    A committee with the North Central Texas Council of Governments is developing an anti-smog plan for Dallas-Fort Worth.
    Photo via Wikimedia Commons

    An independent researcher has found evidence of ill effects of fracking in the Barnett Shale that challenges optimistic claims from government officials.

    Mahdi Ahmadi, a University of North Texas graduate student, pored over more millions of data points from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to determine if there is a link between declining ozone and oil and gas production.

    As first reported by the Denton Record-Chronicle, Ahmadi's research shows that areas where oil and gas is extracted have higher ozone increase than areas without fracking. Ahmadi's findings directly contradict the TCEQ's assertion that Barnett Shale mining has no significant impact on local ozone levels.

    Mahdi Ahmadi's findings directly contradict reports from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

    Ahmadi's findings follow a March report by Rachel Rawlins at the University of Texas at Austin, which connected fracking in Flower Mound to a local childhood cancer cluster.

    To determine his ozone findings, Ahmadi and his faculty advisor used the commission's own database and examined over 6.5 million data points on air quality.

    After controlling for weather conditions, a trend emerged connecting worse ozone quality and oil and gas production in the Barnett Shale. The commission maintains that the increased fracking wells in North Texas have no significant effect on the ozone.

    Thanks to efforts from Downwinders at Risk and Rep. Lon Burnam (D-Fort Worth), the public will get its first glimpse of the new and contradictory research. The results will be presented at an air quality committee meeting in Arlington on April 17. The committee is developing an anti-smog plan for Dallas-Fort Worth.

    "This is a small but important victory for real science in this process, as opposed to the completely politicized approach by TCEQ to prevent the imposition of new controls of any kind," Jim Schermbeck with Downwinders at Risk said in a statement. "Citizens are going to have to be more vigilant in this process if they want cleaner air."

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    Texas Tragedy

    Camp Mystic files for bankruptcy one year after deadly Texas floods

    Associated Press
    Jun 24, 2026 | 11:58 am
    Funeral Held For Sisters Killed During The Flooding At Camp Mystic In Hunt, Texas
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    Camp Mystic filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on Wednesday, June 24, nearly a year after catastrophic floods killed 25 girls and two teenage counselors at the all-girls Christian camp in Texas.

    In paperwork filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Texas in Houston, the camp listed its debt as more than $10 million. The camp along the Guadalupe River said it had assets in the range of $100,001 to $500,000.

    Families of the victims filed a lawsuit in November seeking more than $1 million in damages, saying the camp operators failed to take the necessary steps to protect the girls as life-threatening floodwaters approached on July 4. Camp owner Richard Eastland also died in the flood.

    All told, the destructive flooding killed at least 136 people along a several-mile stretch of the river, raising questions about how things went so terribly wrong.

    The Associated Press sent emails and left phone messages Wednesday requesting comment from an attorney representing Camp Mystic and the Eastland family. A phone message seeking comment also was left for a spokesperson for the families who sued the camp.

    The bankruptcy filing comes weeks after Camp Mystic halted plans to reopen this summer in the face of outrage from victims’ families and lawmakers that the century-old camp intended to welcome girls back while lawsuits and investigations remained ongoing.

    Camp Mystic's attorney had said it was ready to reopen for business for nearly 900 campers before the camp's reversal in April. The decision followed weeks of testimony in court hearings and legislative investigations that laid bare the camp’s lack of detailed planning for a flood emergency and its reliance on poorly trained staff.

    Families of the victims packed the hearings, often wearing “Heaven’s 27” pins with photographs of their daughters. They listened to the details of missed flood warning signs, the descriptions of the flood, and the decision to leave the girls in their cabins until it was too late. Testimony included video of the raging floodwaters as a girl repeatedly screamed for “help!” somewhere in the distance.

    Before halting the reopening plans, Camp Mystic invited journalists and lawmakers to review safety improvements at the camp and promised that no camp activities would take place in the low-lying area that was devastated by the flood. The Eastland family also stressed that hundreds of families wanted to return and described it as a special place for generations of Texans.

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