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The Texas Railroad Commission had called for an emergency suspension of Blackbuck Resources’ water disposal well operations ...

On June 9, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed granting the State of Texas primary enforcement ...

The Railroad Commission of Texas, the state’s oil and gas regulator, is responsible for ensuring that operators plug wells properly. Once a well stops producing oil or gas, operators are ...

“Even the simplest well can take time,” said Nicholas Harrel, a state managed plugger with the Texas Railroad Commission. From the air, the wells look like pinpricks across the Texas landscape.

Oil workers pull tubing from an orphan well in a field in Luling on March 27, 2025. Credit: Lorianne Willett/The Texas Tribune. By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune. LULING Just six minutes ...

The issue of emergency well pluggings, such as some wells with uncontrolled water flows goes beyond those seen in West Texas this year, said Christi Craddick, chairman of the Railroad Commission.

The Texas Railroad Commission (RRC), which Craddick will chair for another six years, regulates the industry, overseeing everything from well permitting to pipeline safety. Sign up here.

Republican Christi Craddick reelected to Railroad Commission, the state’s oil and gas regulatory agency By BY ALEJANDRA MARTINEZ , The Texas Tribune Nov 6, 2024 ...

The chair of the powerful and deceptively named Texas Railroad Commission is defending her seat this November at a time when the state’s oil and gas industry is booming but ...