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The agreement might not solve the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s biggest problem: compliance with environmental law.
A short-staffed state agency struggles to catch rogue water users.
But 1.5 degrees, the world’s most ambitious goal, still looks out of reach.
Regulators repeatedly documented — but did little to address — problems at a Houston-area tank farm.
The so-called “exchange contract” has created a surreal split-screen effect: One group of farmers has ample water. Another has almost none.
A century after the oil industry attracted Black families to Beaumont, Texas, residents are left battling a climate, housing, and health crisis.
The agreement's feeble enforcement measures are a feature, not a bug.
A draft plan says it could be done by 2045, but only with the help of significant carbon capture projects.
30x30 has been pitched as a key tool in the climate fight. Indigenous peoples say it threatens their lives.