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Police officers in Amarillo have new protocol and policy related to the city’s automatic license plate reader cameras. This comes after a former Amarillo officer was fired and arrested, charged with 76 counts of tampering with government records when he was accused of abusing the city’s camera system. The Texas General Land Office announced yesterday that it is exploring possibly allowing small nuclear reactors as well geothermal and natural gas plants on state land.

A recent report from Inside Climate News found that the state's environmental regulators are not holding polluters as accountable as they once did. The Texas Department of Transportation will receive more than $5.5 billion from the federal government for infrastructure improvements. And the U.S. Supreme Court is revisiting a dispute over shipping nuclear waste from across the country to a site in far West Texas.

A controversial plan to ship nuclear waste from across the country to a site in rural West Texas has been blocked since last year after Texas prevailed in a federal lawsuit. The high court has now agreed to take up the case.