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AUSTIN, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – The Railroad Commission of Texas announced ... locations for pits used by commercial oil and gas ...

In 1984, while Ronald Reagan was securing a landslide reelection and Apple introduced the Macintosh, the Railroad Commission ...

The Railroad Commission of Texas issued a total of 666 original drilling permits in January 2025. The total includes 607 to drill new oil or gas wells, 6 to re-enter plugged wellbores, and 53 for ...

One seat on the three-member Railroad Commission of Texas, which oversees the state’s multibillion-dollar oil and gas industry ... show favor for a competing facility. As a commissioner ...

For the first time in several years, a major new greenfield natural gas storage facility is also coming ... Goetz speaks highly of the Texas Railroad Commission, whose employees worked diligently ...

AUSTIN The Railroad Commission of Texas assessed $1,524,265 in enforcement ... oversight and enforcement of the state’s oil and gas industry and intrastate pipeline safety.

Leaking wells are complicating an already-daunting problem for the Railroad Commission ... and Gas Association said the oil and gas industry does plenty for Texas taxpayers. It said in a report ...