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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Carlos Nogueras Ramos

West Texas lawmakers push bills to divert some oil and gas taxes to help oil-producing counties with roads, other needs

Truckers line up to receive a load of sand, used in oil and gas fracking, at the Capital Sand plant Monday, July 1, 2024, outside of Monahans.
Truckers line up to receive a load of sand used in oil and gas fracking at the Capital Sand plant outside of Monahans in July 2024. (Credit: Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune)

ODESSA — The fracking boom that resuscitated the Texas oil fields has also beaten up the infrastructure in the Permian Basin, the state’s biggest oil and gas drilling region.

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