The total includes 607 to drill new oil or gas wells, six to re-enter plugged wellbores, and 53 for re-completions, the RRC ...

Texas says Energy Transfer did not violate safety codes after a man drove his car into a pipeline in Deer Park. Some ...

Is everything bigger in Texas? Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp last week announced that his university has ...

Doc Lloyd, Daisy Bradford and Columbus Marion "Dad" Joiner pose for a photo. In 1930, Joiner uncovered the biggest oil field ...

Lawsuit claims new permits do not take environmental or health impacts into account. A lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and the ...

Environmental groups are suing the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management over drilling permits it approved in California’s San Joaquin Valley. The lawsuit — led by Earthjustice ...

Texas has thousands of orphan oil and gas wells that need plugging. The Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates oil and gas wells in the state, defines these as wells that have been inactive ...

The initiative aims to facilitate the commercial readiness of SMR technologies by providing a dedicated site for prototype ...

Environmentalists are worried the state — known for a lax approach to regulation — is not prepared for the added responsibility of regulating certain carbon capture projects. Texas oil and gas ...

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The suit also says the agency failed to gather public input before approving drilling permits. NEPA says the federal government must take a "hard look" at oil production's cumulative air ...