Photos and artifacts are on display at the Bullock Texas State History Museum, chronicling the story of the collaborative ...

The Texas Railroad Commission has urgently requested an additional $100 million in emergency funding from state lawmakers as it faces an escalating crisis of leaking and erupting oil wells.

The name of the Texas oil and gas regulatory agency — unlike its peers in other states — has nothing to do with fossil fuels or natural resources. The Railroad Commission of Texas hasn’t had anything ...

The three-member board oversees Texas’ oil and gas industry. The agency has faced criticism over safety concerns linked to ...

it is charged in the petition that the company has failed to obey certain orders of the State Railroad Commission. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

CBS News Texas has been following ... traveling across the state, speaking to people from the Chihuahuan Desert to the Pineywoods. In late July our crew drove nearly 500 miles west to the annual ...

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 ...

Abandoned wells in the Permian Basin are increasingly erupting with briney, polluted water. The Texas Railroad Commission says it needs emergency money to respond. Audio recording is automated for ...

If you want to keep the spooky spirit going beyond Halloween, maybe a trip to a Texas ghost town will do the trick. Among the more than 500 ghost towns across the state, most were abandoned because of ...

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an oil well control specialist in West Texas and Eddie Espinoza, a retired school teacher and veteran of the Green Party. The Railroad Commission is the oldest state regulatory agency, formed in ...