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Senate Bill 6 tasks the state’s Public Utility Commission with creating a framework for handling the surge in data centers ...

Less than a day after commissioners approved a controversial redistricting proposal​, a group of citizens filed a lawsuit ...

The fight will likely continue in court. Democrats have said they plan to mount a legal challenge to this mid-census ...

The Texas Railroad Commission permits provide for 12 salt ... interstate and Texas intrastate transmission arteries. See the map of the TRU Hub storage facility, proposed natural gas pipeline ...

The Railroad Commission of Texas, which regulates oil and gas waste ... Eric Selinger points out the location on a map of irrigation infrastructure in Pecos County, Texas. Agricultural production ...

'As the oldest regulatory agency in Texas, the RRC has oil and gas records dating back to the 1930s on paper in district offices and on microfilm'. Image by pingingz via iStock In a statement ...

The map shows a majority ... and between Hutto and Taylor. The railroad commission tracks pipeline breaks, which showed more than 10,000 incidents across Texas in 2023. However, most issues ...

The Railroad Commission of Texas, the governmental agency tasked with overseeing oil and gas production in the state, is investigating the 5.1-magnitude earthquake that rattled much of West Texas ...

This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. The Railroad Commission of Texas, the governmental agency tasked with overseeing oil and gas production in the state ...

The RRC has investigated disposal wells as the cause of West Texas earthquakes after they became ... according to the Railroad Commission’s GIS map, and Kinder Morgan operates a carbon dioxide ...

The map below shows roughly where the 5.1-magnitude ... one that occurred an hour earlier west of Pecos. The Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates oil and gas operations in the state, is ...