{"id":5784,"date":"2012-02-13T10:57:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=5784"},"modified":"2012-02-13T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:57:14","slug":"now-read-this-stateimpact-texas-top-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/13\/now-read-this-stateimpact-texas-top-5-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Read This: StateImpact Texas Top 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo courtesy of Dr. Frohlich<\/p>

Dr. Cliff Frohlich of the University of Texas at Austin is researching the links between fracking and earthquakes.<\/p><\/div>\n

Accidents at drilling sites, new links between fracking and earthquakes, and a farewell party for La Ni\u00f1a (the main culprit behind the current Texas drought) were among our readers’ favorite stories over the last week. In case you missed them, here are the top five new StateImpact Texas stories:<\/p>\n

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  1. How Fracking, Drilling and Earthquakes are Linked<\/a>:\u00a0One UT professor is finding new connections between drilling activity and quakes. Should Texans be concerned?<\/li>\n
  2. Drilling’s Dangers: What Might Reduce Worker Deaths<\/a>:\u00a0As drilling for oil and gas has surged in Texas, so have injuries and deaths. But there are promising efforts to reduce accidents.<\/li>\n
  3. Another Round in Texas vs. EPA: Don’t Touch Our Fracking<\/a>:\u00a0On Tuesday, the\u00a0Railroad Commission of Texas<\/a>, which regulates drilling in the state, fired a shot across the bow of the EPA. The message? Don’t touch our fracking.<\/li>\n
  4. For Texas, a Choice: Conservation or Rolling Blackouts<\/a>:\u00a0If the state encounters another scorching hot summer like we had last year, the choice will be between\u00a0rolling blackouts<\/a>\u00a0or ramped-up conservation, the president of Electric Reliability Council of Texas<\/a>\u00a0(ERCOT ) testified at a hearing Thursday.<\/li>\n
  5. Mark Your Calendars for\u00a0La Ni\u00f1a’s Farewell Party<\/a>:\u00a0When will the drought end? It’s truly too soon to say, but one of the main culprits, La Ni\u00f1a, is going to be leaving us soon. But there’s a catch.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Accidents at drilling sites, new links between fracking and earthquakes, and a farewell party for La Ni\u00f1a (the main culprit behind the current Texas drought) were among our readers’ favorite stories over the last week. In case you missed them, here are the top five new StateImpact Texas stories: How Fracking, Drilling and Earthquakes are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":5589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5791,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions\/5791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}