Dallas Morning News (Commentary): Texas oil and gas regulators offer a weak fix to flaring

Aug. 25 — After months of promising talk about curbing the oil and gas industry’s wasteful and polluting flaring habit, the Texas Railroad Commission unveiled a plan that does little to fix the problem. Despite calls from mineral owners, the public and even some in the industry itself to end to routine flaring, the commission instead embraced largely empty measures advanced by an oil and gas trade group.

— Dallas Morning News