The Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) issued two new oil well drilling permits in Burleson County in October. The RRC report is for newly approved permits in the county, not for drill sites which were ...

The massive volume of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing in the Permian basin is causing ground pressure issues, regulatory ...

Midland Energy Library stores 100,000+ Permian well logs and rare mud logs from the 1920s, and is building a digital database ...

A Texas politician has come under scrutiny for filing as a Republican after raising money from Democrats. Katherine Culbert, a former Democratic nominee for the Texas Railroad Commission, has launched ...

The races for U.S. Senate and governor are taking shape, as the candidate filing period comes to a close. Candidates who wants to appear on the state’s Democratic or Republican primary ballot next ...

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Jim Wright stepped out of the room this month while his fellow Railroad Commissioners voted to renew the permit for Eagleford Recycling LLC, an oil field waste company to which he has financial ties.

For most of its history, the Railroad Commission of Texas has famously been a misnomer. Created in 1891, it was the state’s first regulatory body, overseeing the sprawling railroads, terminals, and ...