The Railroad Commission’s state-funded program plugged 1,012 wells in fiscal year 2024, meeting their goal of 1,000 wells. The agency has plugged more than 700 additional wells with federal funds .

The chair of the powerful and deceptively named Texas Railroad Commission is defending her seat this November at a time when the state’s oil and gas industry is booming but the agency that ...

The Texas Senate passed another bill that year, authored by state Sen. Robert Nichols, a Republican, that would have changed the name to the Texas Energy Resources Commission. Yet again, the bill ...

Christi Craddick, the chair of the Railroad Commission of Texas, and Don Huffines, a Texas businessman and former state ...

When the Texas oil industry took off in the early 1900s, state lawmakers saw a lot of similarities between the regulation of railroad and of pipelines. After all, they are both fixed pieces of ...