EPA Dallas head resigns
Fracking sure is a touchy subject. In December 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered Range Resources to take immediate steps to protect the families in two homes in Parker County. The residents were living near fracked wells and had noticed ...

California may have itself a fracking bill
The Golden State may not be the one you generally associate with oil and natural gas. I too think of Hollywood and the movie "Vertigo" before oil ever crosses my mind. But they do have energy production. California is the ...

Marcus Washington Memorial Fund
Marcus Washington was found dead in his jail cell over the weekend. Washington was in federal custody after he allegedly fired a gun in the gymnasium of Victoria College last September. Washington's family remembers a different person from the man ...

All kinds of environment goodness from the web world
There are a million nifty things being reported out there in the wide world of energy and the environment. If you haven't checked out the series on the drought being put on by StateImpact and PBS Newshour you oughta check ...

The kindness of strangers: It really is a thing
As a reporter, I cover the news. If something bad happens, it's me or one of my colleagues out there finding out what happened and bringing the information back to the public. So finding myself suddenly becoming news last week ...

In the middle of an oil boom, water may be the next big thing
Nosing around on the internet today, in the midst of research for the next installment of The Play, our series on the impact of the Eagle Ford Shale, I came across an interesting bit from the Oil and Gas Investments ...

Will we run out of electricity?
I was walking my dog this morning - i.e. urging her emphatically to hurry up and get things done because I needed coffee, stat - when I caught sight of some ridiculously beautiful purple flowers. They sprang up overnight, coaxed ...

The man-child: Why won't guys grow up?
A story from Philadelphia Magazine got my friends and I talking today. The story, "The Sorry Lives and Confusing Times of Today's Young Men," is about how the modern young male and how, for a variety of reasons, he just ...

Is the Texas Supreme Court singing a different tune?
For the past many years, the odds were good that if landowners went up against oil companies in court, the highest court in the state would side with oil interests every time. However, the Texas Supreme Court justices seem to ...

The Railroad Commission and TCEQ are in town today
That's right, representatives from the RRC and TCEQ will be on hand this afternoon, with a few other public and private sector dignitaries, to speak at the Victoria Energy Summit. I wonder what they want to talk about? Kidding. Oil, ...