A sinkhole around an old oil well is growing at an alarming ... The Railroad Commission, which regulates oil and gas drilling and plugging in Texas, has sent personnel to the site.

The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian ... which regulates oil and gas drilling and plugging in Texas, has sent personnel ...

And of the remaining 10% that occurs on federal land, the oil and gas industry has millions of acres leased,” Biden said. “They have 9,000 permits to drill now. They could be drilling right ...

By Lisa Friedman The Trump administration has opened thousands of acres of land in Nevada and New Mexico to oil and gas drilling, geothermal development and hard-rock mining, reversing protections ...

Jeff Hurd (R-CO) wants the government to lift restrictions on oil and gas production that would free up millions of acres of federal land, much of it in his Colorado district, for drilling and ...

A federal district judge on Thursday ruled against a Biden administration sale of oil and gas drilling rights in the ... of what to do about the two-year-old sale, instead directing additional ...

He also said the administration would revoke restrictions on land along the Trans-Alaska ... polar bears and migratory birds at risk. “Expanding oil drilling across public lands in the Arctic ...

Nearly 4,000 of the Biden permits are on public lands administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s New Mexico office, followed by 1,223 drilling permits in Wyoming, and several hundred each in ...