Mar. 17—AUSTIN — The U.S. Department of the Interior Office of the Inspector General has released an audit report showing the Railroad Commission of Texas successfully used federal grant funding for ...

Feb. 26—AUSTIN — The Railroad Commission of Texas has issued its first permit for a deep geo-pressured, geothermal well to Sage Geosystems in Atascosa County. Located south of San Antonio in the ...

The state of Texas will infuse more cash into a program for plugging inactive oil and gas wells in 2026 and 2027, as the average cost of sealing each well has rapidly increased. The state is ...

Another orphaned oil well in West Texas erupted with black, salty water this month as state regulators struggle to address ...

Onshore wells typically cost about $30,000 to plug, yet the commission has paid more than 10 times that amount to plug wells that are gushing with contaminated water. The commission, which regulates ...

The Railroad Commission of Texas said it has issued its first permit for a deep geo-pressured, geothermal well to Sage Geosystems in Atascosa County. Image by Astrid860 via iStock In a statement ...

13 Investigates spent two hot summer days on the waters of Trinity Bay as we toured old and abandoned oil wells. Now, the state says it has plugged some of the 186 orphan wells along the Texas coast ...

Regarding "Hawk Dunlap loves the oil industry. That’s why he’s fighting Chevron. | Opinion," (Aug. 13): The Railroad Commission of Texas rejects the narrative parroted by the Houston Chronicle that ...

A 200-foot-wide sinkhole is growing at an alarming rate around an abandoned oil well in Texas, according to the family that owns the land but not the oil. The air around the massive crater in West ...

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