Industry experts and oil attorneys say French has little room to make good on his campaign promises, but some are also encouraging voters not to underestimate him.
The ground is swelling with oilfield wastewater along the Texas-Louisiana border, a well-documented problem. Some of that waste pollutes drinking water sources.
Locating the massive power plant with Microsoft’s data center in Reeves County lets Chevron sidestep ERCOT, supplying it directly with electricity using natural gas from the Permian Basin.
Texas’ AI boom is colliding with an oil industry wastewater crisis. State leaders and industry increasingly see each problem as the solution to the other.
Conservative megadonor Tim Dunn is boosting Bo French’s campaign to regulate Texas oil. But incumbent Jim Wright has help from Chevron, Exxon and Energy Transfer.
As earthquakes increase in East Texas and Louisiana, scientists are investigating whether oil and gas operations in the Haynesville shale formation are to blame.
The legal battle to come is a test for both the Railroad Commission and the oil and gas industry it regulates, as tension builds over who should be held accountable for leaking wells in Texas.
