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This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part three in a four-part series. Read part one here ...

ODESSA, Texas — For retired pastor Columbus ... surface has turned cleanup into a game of “whack-a-mole,” as Kirk Edwards, a local oil and gas executive and former chair of the Permian ...