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markodochartaigh

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2. A decade ago Denton Texas

Reply to PeaceWave (Original post)

Sun Sep 7, 2025, 03:10 AM

Sep 2025

voted to ban fracking. The state of Texas overruled them and passed a law so that local communities couldn't ban fracking. Republicans are only for local control, or small government, when it benefits them or their friends.

https://www.texastribune.org/2015/05/18/abbott-signs-denton-fracking-bill/

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Party of small gubmint and freedumb! RockRaven Sep 2025 #1

A decade ago Denton Texas markodochartaigh Sep 2025 #2

Have you checked the air quality reports for Texas lately? littlemissmartypants Sep 2025 #3

It's especially bad along the Chemical Coast markodochartaigh Sep 2025 #4

I'm sorry to hear about your brother. It doesn't take much exposure either. ... littlemissmartypants Sep 2025 #5

Dud Some Work At Chem Sites In Both Places ProfessorGAC Sep 2025 #14

I would not blame this on the GOP. LeftInTX Sep 2025 #6

repubes are all about BIG GOVERNMENT BoRaGard Sep 2025 #7

Big government is about controlling the masses MagickMuffin Sep 2025 #17

You don't vote Democrat, you vote Democratic. BWdem4life Sep 2025 #8

The GOP is now a Big Government Big Brother party owned by a deranged dictator dalton99a Sep 2025 #9

I had a neighbor in Jersey complain bitterly . . . peggysue2 Sep 2025 #10

I love sunflowers, but I love property values more. gulliver Sep 2025 #11

Wow. yardwork Sep 2025 #12

Uh, no. Just no. MineralMan Sep 2025 #16

Sunflowers can remove radioactive waste from the topsoil. PurgedVoter Sep 2025 #13

What an awful Ordinance - it's anti-environment muriel_volestrangler Sep 2025 #15

Here in one of the more affluent Silicon Valley towns Retrograde Sep 2025 #18