The Grist: Why is Michael Bloomberg giving $2.6 million to elect a railroad commissioner in Texas?
Oct 28, 2020 | News Roundup
Oct. 28 — Oil and gas companies burn off billions of cubic feet of natural gas into the atmosphere every year in Texas alone. It’s both wasteful — the gas could be used to power the state’s populous cities many times over — and a major source of climate-warming pollution. Nevertheless, the Texas Railroad Commission, the state agency that regulates the industry, has largely sanctioned the practice, rubber-stamping applications from companies that want to engage in unlimited flaring.