Houston’s economy rises and falls with oil, and despite diversification, the city still feels every global shift in energy ...

Revenue from oil and gas state and local taxes can and do offer substantial boosts to school districts across Texas, making ...

The historic Spindletop oil site in Texas offers a model for storing more natural gas underground amid forecasts of surging ...

The president has unleashed broadsides against clean energy. The Texas power boom is being used by renewables supporters to ...

If you’re talking about bottom-line dollars, the wind turbines make more for the ranch than the cattle do,” says Bobby Helmers, an 84-year-old West Texas rancher whose journey from oilman to wind ...

Across the Lone Star State, America’s brashest founders are spending billions in a blitz to displace Silicon Valley, ...

“We will drill, baby, drill,” President Donald Trump declared at his inauguration on January 20. Echoing the slogan that ...

3. At night, you can see Texas’ oil boom from outer space. Images taken by a NASA satellite show a thick band of glowing dots, like stars, along the Eagle Ford Shale.

Texas has nearly 8,900 orphan wells, according to the Railroad Commission’s most recent list. Many are concentrated in oil-rich areas like the Permian Basin, including Reeves, Crockett, and ...