"There's a whole lake of oil down there," said the oil man, as Dianna Wray writes for the Victoria Advocate. "But we don't know how to get it." The oil man was years ago speaking to a married couple, homeowners who live on the Barnett Shale, when it was almost common...
"Unreasonable," "unnecessary," "hijack," and "knee-jerk" are all words used by state lawmakers and other officials whose local economies largely rely on the oil and gas industry. They're referring to federal oversight of so-called "hydrofracking," oversight that poses...