Two years after lawmakers created a $10 million program to address leaking wells in rural counties, none of the money has ...

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The Railroad Commission of Texas issued a total of 666 original drilling permits in January 2025. The total includes 607 to drill new oil or gas wells, 6 to re-enter plugged wellbores, and 53 for ...

The new rule modernizes some aspects of commercial oilfield waste disposal and recycling. But rules for burying oilfield ...

In 1984, while Ronald Reagan was securing a landslide reelection and Apple introduced the Macintosh, the Railroad Commission ...

It took 2 years, but the Texas Railroad Commission has updated regulations for the disposal of brine, drilling mud and other ...

Alas, we might never know. Opiela v. Railroad Commission of Texas and Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating, was a challenge to the Commission’s authority ...

Texas regulators have completed the first overhaul of oilfield waste rules in over 40 years. The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) last month adopted revisions for Chapters 3 and 4 of its rules ...

Legislators are poised to tackle renewables and other matters that could echo across the U.S. in the months ahead.

ELYSIAN FIELDS, Tx. - Three East Texas communities are fighting to protect their water from possible contamination from an ...