When Jim Wright won a seat on Texas’ energy regulator against climate activist challenger Chrysta Castaneda, the anti-fossil fuel movement’s collective hearts sank. The planet will be ruined! But the Texas Railroad Commission—the Commissioners of which are nearly always Republican and fossil-fuel friendly—bowed under the climate pressure long before the election and is now cracking down on flaring. And if climate activists (and Big Oil, but more on that later) have their way, Texas’ oil industry will suffer. But rather than point to the climate win and acknowledge the Republican-led regulator’s efforts against flaring, much like Michael Bloomberg-supported failed candidate Chrysta Castaneda’s, the media sucked up internet bandwidth to repeat Big Oil’s objection that these measures just aren’t far enough. Where’s the total ban on routine flaring? they chide from their cheap seats. For Texas, however, these regulations could prove far too much. Between a Shale Rock and an […]