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Articles tagged: Railroad Commission

This photo taken in 2015, shows a flare-up at an oil processing plant outside Cuero, Texas in 2015. Researchers from the University of Southern California and San Francisco State University are using satellites to see how much flaring occurs in the region, in addition to data provided by the oil and gas industry. The researchers have counted 43,887 distinct oil and gas flares in the region from 2012 to 2016.

The Environmental Protection Agency Wants to Repeal its Methane Emissions Limits

Texas, the nation’s largest oil and gas producer, doesn’t otherwise regulate the potent greenhouse gas.

Fri, Aug 30, 2019 |

When it comes to climate change, what happens in Texas—the nation’s top oil and gas producer—increasingly doesn’t stay in Texas. The Lone Star state acc...Read More

by Naveena Sadasivam

After Eight-Year Battle Over Reforming the Railroad Commission, Oil and Gas Industry Wins

The industry is the top funding source for lawmakers’ campaigns, according to a recent report from Texans for Public Justice.

Tue, May 16, 2017 |

A nearly decade-long battle between environmentalists and the oil and gas industry to reform Texas’ energy regulatory agency came to a close last week — and...Read More

$A fracking operation in the Eagle Ford Shale region.$

by Naveena Sadasivam

Will the Railroad Commission Ever Be Accurately Named?

Thu, Nov 10, 2016 |

The Sunset Commission nixed a recommendation to change the Texas Railroad Commission’s name to one that actually describes its role regulating oil and gas....Read More

$Hospitals, nursing homes and schools in Texas in close proximity to fracking operations put children at particular risk, say environmental groups.$

Enviros to Texas Lawmakers: What About the Fracking Kids?

Fri, Oct 14, 2016 |

A report showing the proximity of schools and daycare centers to fracking wells should serve as a wakeup call to Texas lawmakers, environmental groups say....Read More

Louis XIV

by Christopher Hooks

WTF Friday: Mind Playing Tricks On Me

Fri, Sep 12, 2014 |

This week in WTF: L'Empereur Richard Perry of Paint Creek, Vladimir Putin up in everybody's stuff now, Todd Staples is hungry for vegetarians. Dewhurst....Read More

An oil field south of Odessa, TX.

by Christopher Hooks

House Committee Pledges to do Very Little About ‘Frackquakes’

Tue, May 13, 2014 |

If the first meeting of a House subcommittee on frackquakes is any indication, the Lege plans to ask nicely that the oil and gas industries do better....Read More

Anti-Federal Sentiment Dominates Discussion of Texas Oil and Gas Industry

by Beth Cortez-Neavel

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

The newest member of the Texas Railroad Commission, Christi Craddick, took to the podium at the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s big Austin policy confab ...Read More

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