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How Radioactive Oil and Gas Waste Could Lie Beneath a North Texas Elementary School
Soil tests follow whistleblower’s discovery of radioactive and PFAS-contaminated fracking waste beneath a playground serving nearly 500 students in a Johnson County residential area.
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How Radioactive Oil and Gas Waste Could Lie Beneath a North Texas Elementary School
Editor’s Note: This story was produced in collaboration by Truthdig and the Texas Observer. On a cold winter morning in Johnson County, at the southwestern edge of the booming Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, 52-year-old Lee Oldham stands beside the Pleasant View Elementary School and wonders what the drilling waste he helped lay underneath might mean for the children inside. Surrounding the school is the partially complete 2,500-home Silo Mills dev…
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