All eyes in Texas are on the coronavirus and the state government’s response to it. But some of the biggest state agencies are still doing what they always do, like building highways and debating oil and gas regulations.
Texas Railroad Commission
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Texas oil regulators take no action on production
A day after oil prices crashed, The Texas Railroad Commission opted against taking action to impose limits on oil producers.
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Texas’ oil and gas regulators aren’t ready to cut production yet. They’re not even sure how it would work if they did.
The Railroad Commission, which oversees the state’s oil and gas industry, took more than 10 hours of testimony about whether the agency should lower production as the coronavirus lowers demand.
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Coronavirus in Texas: Hard-line conservatives want stay-at-home order relaxed; Paxton issues opinion on temporary tax exemption
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As oil price crisis grips the globe, small Texas producers feel the ripple effects
Plummeting demand and an international price dispute have forced Texas oil producers to begin shutting wells.
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Economy
Texas regulators contemplating a reduction in oil production amid coronavirus crisis
A Texas Railroad Commission official said no decision has been made yet and the agency is looking into options.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton concedes Republican primary in surprising upset
Sitton was elected in 2014 to the three-member board, which oversees Texas’ oil and gas industry. Jim Wright, who beat him in an upset, owns an oilfield waste services company.
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Energy
“It’s a joke”: Flaring expert finds big problems in report from Texas oil and gas regulator
“It looks more like a political manifesto to me,” a Texas A&M professor said about a report from the Railroad Commission of Texas.
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Pipeline giant sues Railroad Commission, alleging lax oversight of natural gas flaring
A subsidiary of Tulsa-based Williams Cos. is suing Texas’ oil and gas regulatory agency after it approved a request from Dallas-based Exco Operating Co. to burn off natural gas from wells in South Texas while they were hooked up to Williams’ pipeline system.
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Politics
Optimistic Democrats are lining up to run for Texas’ high courts in 2020
The depth of the bench for non-marquee statewide races, like the state’s two high courts and the Railroad Commission, is a measure of how high Democratic hopes have soared ahead of the 2020 election.
