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

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.

INVESTIGATION: Texas oil companies are leaking toxic gas near schools and homes. Regulators do little to stop them. The Railroad Commission, which regulates the oil industry, doesn’t map sites ...

Looking to oust a Democratic district attorney in rural ... loudest voices in a growing chorus of West Texas residents trying to compel oil and gas companies and the state government to do ...

More than 150,000 oil and gas wells sit idle and unplugged across Texas. These wells often outlast their cash-strapped owners, who leave them behind after they die, go bankrupt or dissolve their ...

PECOS, Texas — Extreme drought ... 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.” ...