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ODESSA, Texas — As President Donald Trump enters the first 100 days of his second term, he is once again making his stance on ...

West Texas Lawmakers Push Bills to Divert Some Oil and Gas Taxes to Oil Patch Infrastructure Needs ODESSA, Texas (AP) — The fracking boom that resuscitated the Texas oil fields has also beaten ...

Reps. Tom Craddick and Brooks Landgraf want to divert 10% of taxes collected on oil and gas production to help budget-strapped counties keep up with growth. Truckers line up to receive a load of ...

Wastewater from the West Texas oil field, which comes back to the surface after hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a well is practically the filthiest ... day and spray it over a 100-acre plot near ...

One company wants small nuclear reactors to power the energy-intensive process of purifying vast volumes of toxic “produced ...

The grandfather and his grandson lived at opposite ends of a whitewashed wood-frame house on the southeastern edge of a small oil-patch town ... handed his grandson a well-worn silver Zippo ...

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.