KERA News: Gas pipeline was not marked by locators before Oak Cliff apartment explosion, report says
July 1 — The NTSB’s report does not offer a cause of the gas explosion, instead largely providing a timeline of events. The detail about the gas line being unmarked was only mentioned in the footnotes of the report.
https://www.keranews.org/energy-environment/2026-07-01/ntsb-report-oak-cliff-apartment-explosion-dallas
NBC DFW: Dallas gas line was not marked before deadly fire, explosion, NTSB says
July 1 — The first federal report on a punctured natural gas line that exploded and destroyed a Dallas apartment building says the gas line had not been identified and marked before the May 28 blast.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/ntsb-report-dallas-fire-apartment-building-explosion/4043728/
Texas Tribune: Bo French says Texas shouldn’t recognize babies born to undocumented parents as American citizens
June 30 — The Railroad Commission, a century-old agency governing the state’s enormous oil and gas industry, has no bearing on immigration issues, nor can the three-panel commissioners make decisions that affect a person’s immigration status — an issue French regularly weighs in on.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/30/bo-french-decries-birthright-citizenship-ruling/
Dallas Morning News: Former GOP candidate for Texas Railroad Commission will vote for Democratic nominee
June 30 — Hawk Dunlap, a fourth-generation oil worker who finished last among five candidates in the GOP primary in March, has endorsed state Rep. Jon Rosenthal of Houston for the agency that regulates the state’s oil and gas industry.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/former-gop-candidate-texas-railroad-202947947.html
Gizmodo: SpaceX Wants Its Own Gas Pipeline to Feed All the Starships
June 26 — Elon Musk’s rocket company wants to build its own gas pipeline as it pushes to control every step of Starship’s fuel supply.
https://gizmodo.com/spacex-wants-its-own-gas-pipeline-to-feed-all-the-starships-2000778302
Manufacturing: SpaceX plans to build ‘Starpipe’ natural gas pipeline to fuel Starship rockets
June 26 — The 40-story rocket is central to SpaceX’s push to expand its Starlink broadband network, deploy orbital AI data center satellites, and eventually carry astronauts to the moon and Mars.
https://manufacturing.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/aerospace-defence/spacex-plans-to-build-starpipe-natural-gas-pipeline-to-fuel-starship-rockets/132009835
Austin Current: Paxton says Austin’s ‘electric-ready’ building code violates Texas law
June 26 — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion finding Austin code requiring new buildings to be “electric-ready” discriminates against natural gas.
https://austincurrent.org/2026/06/26/texas-austin-paxton-energy-code-unlawful-utility-gas-electric/
Reuters: SpaceX plans to build ‘Starpipe’ natural gas pipeline to fuel Starship rockets
June 25 — Starpipe, which will end at SpaceX’s Texas company town of Starbase, is expected to be in service by January 26, according to a document filed last month with the Texas Railroad Commission by SpaceX affiliate Lone Star Mineral Development and reviewed by Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/spacex-plans-build-starpipe-natural-gas-pipeline-fuel-starship-rockets-2026-06-25/
Texas Tribune: Tensions with landowners rise as a raft of gas pipelines push through Texas properties
June 25 — Matterhorn Express, a pipeline entity majority-owned by the Austin-based infrastructure company WhiteWater Midstream, would transport Permian Basin gas 580 miles to the Houston area using the powers of eminent domain to sail through thousands of acres of private property.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/25/texas-natural-gas-pipelines-eminent-domain-land-fights/