AUSTIN, Texas, May 14 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: * * * Governor Abbott Announces NTxBio Facility In Plano Governor Greg Abbott today announced that NTxBio ("NTx") will establish a biomanufacturing facility in Plano. The project will create over 170 new jobs and more than $31 million in capital investment. A Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) grant of $1,479,000 has been extended to NTx. "Texas is the epicenter for groundbreaking, life-saving medical research a  more

EUGENE, Oregon, May 15 -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release: * * * Water Quality Control Commission adopts rule banning discharge of oil, gas wastewater to ground, surface waters The New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) today adopted a rule that prohibits the discharge of "produced water" to New Mexico's ground and surface waters. Produced water is a waste byproduct of oil and gas operations and contains hundreds of known and unknown chemical  more