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EPA proposes giving Texas authority to oversee CO2 injection permits

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The planned approval comes amid concerns by some landowners and environmental groups that pumping CO2 into the ground could harm their groundwater and exacerbate earthquakes and old oil-well blowouts already happening in the Permian Basin as Texas struggles to manage wastewater disposal, for which it already has oversight authority.