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 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 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 ...

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 ...