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One company, Targa Resources, vented more than 500,000 pounds of toxins into the air during 17 reported events over a week-long period of extreme heat.

One company vented more than 500,000 pounds of gas toxins into the air during 17 events over a week-long period of extreme heat in June.

The White House Council on Environmental Quality has selected one Laredoan as one of the members of a government task force overseeing and making recommendations for carbon dioxide capture, utilization, and sequestration permitting.

Former house speaker Tom Craddick and his family earned about $10 million last year from oil and gas rights. 

Texas oil and gas regulators worry that federal money could add bureaucracy to the states oil well-plugging effort.

The Railroad Commission of Texas is a highly influential regulatory body, overseeing much of how the state's energy industry works. One thing it doesn't regulate – and hasn't in decades – is railroads. Now a new organization is calling to rename the commission this legislative session.

After multiple near-record Texas earthquakes, oil and gas regulators say they’re stepping up efforts to reduce quakes triggered by industry activity.

The Railroad Commission said Atmos Energy had reported “low pressure” as the reason why customers experienced interruptions in their service Dec. 23.

One of three seats on the Texas Railroad Commission, which oversees the oil and gas industry, is up for grabs this election. Democrat Luke Warford is betting his campaign on the issues of electric grid reliability, regulatory enforcement and reducing emissions.