Texas

Bakken Drilling Interest Waning, Despite Rising Oil Prices

Oil companies have adopted the term “mature” to describe the Bakken in Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota. Even soaring oil prices have not been enough to interest companies in significantly boosting their activity there with the U.S. oil-pricing benchmark Brent Crude trading for $95 a barrel. U.S. oil producers are now more ...

Montana Joins Lawsuit Challenging Immigrants Seeking Asylum

Eight states including Montana have sued the federal government over the Central American Minors Program which allows children and certain family members from parts of Central America to join parents living legally or seeking asylum in the U.S. The states are asking the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to find the CAM pro...