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   <title>Texas Lawmakers Repeatedly Failed to Pass Legislation That Could Have Protected Residents From Deadly Floods</title>
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      <name>Propublica</name>
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   <description>“We need to resist this narrative that this disaster was unpreventable,” said __Michael Slattery__, director of the Institute for Environmental Studies at Texas Christian University. “The disaster is just shaped by policy choices made over what I thought were just years.” Instead, Slattery said, it was decades.</description>
   <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 13:07:02 -0800</pubDate>
   <date>May 6, 2026</date>
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         <name>Michael C. Slattery</name>
         <school>Davis College</school>
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         <url>https://www.tcu.edu/directory/profile/michael-slattery.php</url>
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