Toxic Exposure from Permian Basin Oil Well Flaring in the Balmorhea Area, Reeves County, Texas, Where Suzanne and Jim Franklin Developed Chronic Respiratory Disease, Daily Nosebleeds and Voice Degradation from Hydrogen Sulfide and Benzene Emissions While the State Maintains Only Four Air Monitors Across the Entire Producing Region, Attorney911 Pursues Apache Corporation’s Alpine High Operations and the Gas-Processing Operators Behind the Flaring, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure Infrared Gas-Imaging Footage and TCEQ Violation Notices Before the Records Age Out, Clean Air Act Permits and Texas Nuisance and Toxic Trespass Claims, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, the Statute of Limitations Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Balmorhea Area Toxic Exposure and Permian Basin Oilfield Injuries: Your Legal Rights in Reeves County, Texas You wake up and your nose is full of dried blood. Your voice sounds like gravel poured through a funnel. You step outside your double-wide on the prairie and the chemical stench hits you before the sunlight does — the same smell that has been hanging over this corner of Reeves County since the wells started producing, the same yellow flames you can count from your back door, up to twenty of them now, burning off gas that nobody could figure out how to sell, burning it straight into the air your family breathes. You did not choose this. You moved to this part of West Texas for the quiet, for the desert, for the spring-fed pool at Balmorhea State Park that draws more than 200,000 visitors a year to water so clear you can see straight to the bottom. You stayed for the community of 550 people, for the gem and mineral shop, for the rose bush your late husband planted and asked you to place his ashes around so he could send you flowers from heaven. And now an oil boom built…