re: Lawmakers rush to stop 'catastrophic-level event' at Texas oil fields

As part of my Masters, I collected plants in North La. While driving down a road west of Homer, my professor slammed on the brakes and said, "what the heck is that?" It was a 10 acre low lying edge of a field covered in a marsh "grass" from south louisiana. We drudge through it collecting specimens and getting cut up by the grass (sedge) edges. We identified it as a sedge that only grew in the along the coast in swamps.

There were a lot of oil and gas drilling in the area. Apparently, there was a salt water intrusion, and some ducks from south Louisiana flew in with some seeds. It was pretty cool, but I had to explain it to numerous botanists later because it really looked odd on distribution maps.

Point being, salt water intrusion has a long history, lawmakers and lawyers looking to make money is the problem