Miscellaneous
Public Citizen has sued the Texas Railroad Commission, the state's oil and gas regulator, over emergency orders in May that waived fees and relaxed regulations for the storage of crude oil. The the agency's three commissioners voted May 5 to enact orders that waived fees and charges for construction of new oil storage projects through the end of the year. Commissioners also gave oil companies more time to store waste in open pits and to plug abandoned wells. The relaxed regulations will affect our beautiful south and west Texas land and impinge on ranchers. Our guest on Shades of Green are: Adrian Shelly, Director of the Texas office of Public Citizen Hugh Fitzsimons, a South Texas rancher at the Shape Ranch, author and member of the Winter garden Groundwater Conservation District, and a beekeeper.