In a new video ad, agriculture commissioner candidate Eric Opiela highlights an episode in his hometown of Karnes City, where he helped defeat efforts by an oil and gas company to drill an injection well next to a daycare center.ย The ad is also careful to note that Opiela is a proponent of the oil and gas industry in Texas.ย 

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Neena Satija worked at the Tribune from 2013 to 2019. She was an investigative reporter and radio producer for the Tribune and Reveal, a public radio program from the Center for Investigative Reporting....