A looming wave of abandoned wells threatens to leave taxpayers in Texas and New Mexico on the hook for almost $1 billion in cleanup. (via @grist & @texasobserver)
“You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.” Davy Crockett, 1835
Just north of the Rio Grande, in Hidalgo County, Texas, a mile-long hypersaline lake sits above a prehistoric salt…