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As Dianna Wray writes for the Victoria Advocate, the life of an oilfield worker is bittersweet. When times are good - and times certainly are good right now in the Eagle Ford Shale - oil and gas workers can make around $100,000 per year. But, on the other hand, booms...
Locomotor therapy is giving new hope to people with catastrophic spinal cord injuries sustained in incidents involving everything from cross-country skiing to truck accidents. It used to be that the more paralyzed you were - not able to pull yourself up on parallel...
"The Eagle Ford is the top basin we have in the world today," says Marathon Oil's David Roberts, as Edward Klump reports for Bloomberg. All this Eagle Ford Shale hype - and it's not really hype - means continued focus on intensive hydrofracking here in Texas, which...
Drilling for oil and gas in Texas is a big business industry that can affect the livelihood of many people for decades. South Texas in particular has undergone a recent economic boom on account of the rich deposits of oil and gas on the Eagle Ford Shale - a 400 by 50...
Texas fairs relatively poorly, all things considered, in terms of the cost of auto insurance. As Jerry Edgerton reports for CBS News, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Michigan are the top three states where car insurance is the most expensive. Texas is number 12 at $1,661 per...
As Mark Collette reports for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the Eagle Ford Shale oil boom is an economic "shot in the arm" for Texas, but the deteriorating roads are an unfortunate side effect. If you're a driver on any highway or county or farm roads near the Eagle...
On one hand, you've got an old-fashioned oil boom that's bringing with it plenty of prosperity to local communities on or near the Eagle Ford Shale. One man, for instance, is bringing in roughly $10,000 per month charging 17 men $150 each in rent per week. On the...
All too often the news includes a report that a tanker truck or 18-wheeler has crashed on a Texas highway. For example, in late March the driver of a gasoline tanker truck died when his truck rolled over and caught fire after a collision with a car. The occupants of...
According to a study conducted by TRIP, a nonprofit national transportation research group based in Washington, D.C., Texas ranks second out of 20 states for the number of elderly drivers who lose their lives in motor vehicle accidents, from car accidents to truck...
Energy resources are increasingly in demand, so oil and gas drilling, once an activity left to smaller communities in rural areas, is beginning to affect (and has been for some time) more densely populated areas of the U.S. Unfortunately, the associated risks to local...
