ODESSA — Abandoned oil wells have become an expensive and growing environmental ... Another well blowout in West Texas has a town smelling of rotten eggs] Middelton defended his bill. He told the ...

The fracking boom that resuscitated the Texas oil fields has also beaten up the infrastructure in the Permian Basin, the ...

McCamey is one of countless Texas towns formed in an oil boom. Wildcatter George McCamey struck oil in 1925 and soon several companies were drilling in the area. The town, named for him ...

For retired pastor Columbus Cooper, life can be divided into two periods: the time when he could still drink water out of his tap, and the time after.

A sinkhole is rapidly growing around a failed oil well in Upton County, Texas. It is the latest of many problems cropping up ...

Oilfield traffic drives through a lease as a natural gas flare operates in the distance Monday, April 25, 2022, outside of Midland, Texas. (Odessa ... of drilling and completing oil and gas ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part three in a four-part series. Read part one here and part two here. ODESSA, Texas — For retired pastor Columbus Cooper ...

The bill would have set deadlines for the oil and gas industry to plug inactive wells, which can pose a danger to the environment. A Texas Senate panel told a fellow Republican lawmaker Wednesday ...