In the heart of Texas, where “drill baby drill” meets “playground peril,” a former fracking waste hauler is spilling the radioactive tea: he used to dump glowing sludge on fields that are now under a shiny new elementary school where 500 kids chase kickballs over what might be a slow-motion Chernobyl lite. Lee Oldham claims the stuff melted his jaw like a bad sci-fi plot, turned his spine into Swiss cheese, and that the whole industry runs on the “honor system” — which, spoiler, has zero honor. Forget PFAS in your water; these kids might be getting a free glow-up with every recess. Politicians? Crickets. The oil boom’s legacy: millions of tons of toxic party favors buried under suburbia, because nothing says “family-friendly community” like building on top of frack-aroni and cheese.
Site of Elementary School Was Sprayed With Radioactive Fracking Waste, Worker Warns
