Atlas Energy Solutions, a Texas-based oil field company, has installed a 42-mile long (67 kilometers) conveyer belt to transport millions of tons of sand for hydraulic fracturing. The belt the company named “The Dune Express” runs from tiny Kermit, Texas, and across state borders into Lea County, New Mexico.
Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said on Sunday that 11 campers and a camp counselor were still missing after powerful floods inundated central Texas....