East Texans Fight Oil Waste Pits Run by an Operator Cited for Dozens of Violations

East Texans Fight Oil Waste Pits Run by an Operator Cited for Dozens of Violations

Editor’s Note: This story is a collaboration between the Texas Observer and Inside Climate News. For 15 years, Debrah Linn and her children have raised chickens, miniature donkeys, pet geese, and, more recently, longhorn cattle on what she’d considered an idyllic and peaceful farmette near the village of Elysian Fields.  Her kids ride horses on their shady lane, a 4.3-mile-long country road that undulates through woods filled with standing water…