Permian Basin News

One West Texas Town Wants U.S. Nuclear Waste

As Blake Roberts bounced along a single-lane dirt road in his red Ford Super Duty pickup he pointed to a pumpjack bobbing in the West Texas heat. “Everything we do revolves around oil,” Roberts said as he neared his home …

Kinder Morgan Pipeline Faces Opposition in Texas

A Kinder Morgan Inc.-led natural gas conduit is getting blowback in a place that’s so far been a refuge for the embattled pipeline industry: Texas. And it comes as drillers in the Lone Star state need pipeline space more than …

Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Arson Charge

A 64-year-old man from Odessa, Texas, faces a minimum of five and up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a federal arson charge in connection with a series of unexplained fires in the Permian Basin last …