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1 week ago | texastribune.org | Martha Pskowski

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This story is published in partnership with Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter here. A bill in the Texas Legislature would require oil and gas drillers to notify landowners before burying toxic waste on their property.

1 week ago | texastribune.org | Alejandra Martinez |Alejandra Martínez

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A routine gesture of remembrance devolved into an ugly brawl on the Texas House floor Thursday, as hardline Republicans successfully blocked a memorial resolution honoring Cecile Richards, the late former president of Planned Parenthood and a Texas native. Richards died earlier this year.

1 week ago | texastribune.org | Jess Huff |Alejandra Martinez |Alejandra Martínez |Yuriko Schumacher

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Key coverage Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. This article is part of Running Out, an occasional series about Texas’ water crisis. Read more stories about the threats facing Texas’ water supply here.

1 week ago | texastribune.org | Pooja Salhotra |Terri Langford |Yuriko Schumacher

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. When Daisy Hildebrand became the second Texas child to die of measles on April 3, her physicians reported – per the state health code – the 8-year-old’s death to local officials in Lubbock where she died and in tiny Gaines County where the girl lived.

1 week ago | texastribune.org | Sneha Dey

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas House on Tuesday gave initial approval to a bill that would make it easier for schools to suspend their homeless and youngest students. The proposal included a handful of revisions that seem to respond to calls to incorporate more guidelines so schools don’t unintentionally sweep up a wide range of students.