Land owned by the University of Texas is being used for the practice of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. Within the last 10 years, over 4,100 Texas wells have been subjected to fracking on UT grounds. Acts such as this have caused major environmental instabilities. Despite Texas being in a stubborn drought, this practice had used over six billion gallons of water that only helped Texas dig themselves deeper into a limited water supply. Other environmental atrocities include over 8.5 million pounds of methanol being used and released into the air during fracking, which has been proven to cause birth defects. Also, lack of responsibility has been displayed among this practice in which more than 1.6 million gallons of harmful pollutants have been spilled on UT land, and were not bothered to be cleaned up. The Environmental Research group at the University Lands office would like to place certain restrictions on these companies to not frack on land with environmental importance. Such importance a include prosperous land inhabited by certain birds and endangered species as well. Cleaner air standards and significantly less water usage have also been made a priority for the University Lands office to prohibiting.
http://kxan.com/2015/09/08/report-fracking-of-ut-land-harming-the-environment/