Firms have used billions of gallons of Rio Grande and Pecos River water for drilling in the Eagle Ford Shale and elsewhere, ...

AUSTIN — Texas has become ground zero in a GOP battle over energy, pitting a suburban populist right that seeks to throttle the state’s renewables program against the mainline Republican ...

(Lorianne Willett/The Texas Tribune, Lorianne Willett/The ... get to those as wells first,” said Travis Baer, an oil and gas division district director at the Railroad Commission.

LULING, Texas — This article was originally ... we get to those as wells first,” said Travis Baer, an oil and gas division district director at the Railroad Commission. The Luling well is ...

PECOS, Texas—Extreme drought has ... or over 450 million gallons, in 2024. District general manager Robin Prewit said the water sales to oil and gas drillers are “a drop in the bucket.” ...

Across Texas, abandoned wells are erupting with ... we get to those as wells first,” said Travis Baer, an oil and gas division district director at the Railroad Commission.

Oil and gas wells with no active owner that are no longer ... old and located near coal seams and residential water wells. A map of locations with vulnerability to groundwater contamination ...

The movement is slow — sinking on the scale of millimeters per year in the United States — but the effects accumulate over ...

particularly in West Texas. The region has the most fault zones in the state and is also known for fracking, a process in which liquid is injected into the ground to force oil and gas to the surface.

The academics were able to map shifts down ... In Houston, they said, oil and gas extraction has also had a major impact on the topographic shifts. Other cities in Texas, including Fort Worth ...