Despite science, Texas still rejects fracking link to quakes
November 20, 2016
DALLAS (AP) — A white Chevy Suburban with "Railroad Commission of Texas" emblazoned on its side rolled north on Interstate 35. Behind the wheel sat Milton Rister, the commission's director.
Trim and balding, Rister was a veteran political operator who had held influential positions in the Texas Republican Party for decades. He could smell political disaster from miles away — and this one reeked. As he neared the town of Azle, northwest of Dallas, Rister said to himself: Please let there be only 50 people there.
For weeks, telephones at commission headquarters in Austin had been ringing about e...
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