6 Energy Legislative Trends to Watch in 2015

1. Fracking Bans: Will the Legislature Kill Local Control? Will the Legislature Support the Need for Texas to Remain the Premier Oil Producing State.    See HB 539 & 540 by Phil King

2.  Transportation funding for shale roads.  

3.  Water Use and Fracking  

4. Taxes- severance tax reductions, margins tax fixes, margins tax repeals…

5. Re-naming the Texas Railroad Commission

6. Eminent Domain, especially in relation to pipelines. Austin Business Journal