Texas Railroad Commission

For almost two decades, a former oil well in Pecos County has been gushing briny water, creating a body of water known as Lake Boehmer. Now researchers, dispatched by local officials, have found high levels of the deadly gas hydrogen sulfide there, which could pose a public health issue.

By Mitch Borden After deliberating for weeks, the Texas Railroad Commission rejected a proposal to cut oil production by 20% in a meeting on Tuesday.The…

By Mitch BordenA day after West Texas Intermediate dropped into negative prices, the Texas Railroad Commission, the state’s oil and gas regulator, debated…

By Mitch Borden Some oil companies are pleading with the Texas Railroad Commission to do something unthinkable in recent memory — restrict pumping crude.…

By Mitch BordenIn the last decade, as the oil and gas industry in the Permian Basin and other shale plays have boomed, so have the number of flares across…

By Kiah Collier, Texas TribuneA major pipeline operator is suing the Texas Railroad Commission — the state agency that regulates oil and gas drilling —…

Tomorrow, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meets in Vienna to try to figure out a way to cut oil production. For decades OPEC’s…

State lawmakers on Monday considered a host of recommendations to reshape and rename the Texas Railroad Commission, a powerful agency that oversees a host…

The Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) says the explosion of a 42" natural gas pipeline near the town of Cuero, Texas in June was caused by a "material…

An inquiry by the agency that regulates the oil and gas industry in Texas has found that oil and gas activity did not likely cause a swarm of earthquakes…