New guidelines on permitting for wastewater disposal wells in Texas are threatening to drive oil producers' costs higher as companies face weak crude prices, marking the latest challenge for the ...

Gov. Greg Abbott has activated state resources ahead of a severe weather threat in West Texas and the Panhandle. Here's what you need to know.

“Even the simplest well can take time,” said Nicholas Harrel, a state managed plugger with the Texas Railroad Commission. From the air, the wells look like pinpricks across the Texas landscap ...

After years of deliberations, the technical staff of the Texas ... well pads. A company called M2T, LLC, owned by Joseph McBride, applied for the permit in January 2022. The Railroad Commission ...

In arid West Texas, water seeps and bubbles ... Landowners "cannot use any (federal) funds to plug the well unless it's on that (Railroad Commission) list. They also can't apply for federal ...

The Texas General Land Office works with the commission to plug wells. The GLO even contributed $10 million from its budget to help with the railroad commission's well-plugging initiative.

The name of the Texas oil and gas regulatory agency—unlike its peers in other states—has nothing to do with fossil fuels or natural resources. The Railroad Commission of Texas hasn’t had ...

an oil well control specialist in West Texas and Eddie Espinoza, a retired school teacher and veteran of the Green Party. The Railroad Commission is the oldest state regulatory agency, formed in ...

Unable to keep up with the growing number of leaking and erupting wells in the state’s oil fields, the Texas Railroad Commission ... from increasingly common well blowouts.

The chair of the powerful and deceptively named Texas Railroad ... the commission has plugged about 10% of all the estimated orphan wells in Texas. Craddick has called the commission’s well ...