Energy and oilUpdated November 8

A Democrat wins a seat on Texas’s oil-and-gas regulator after decades

Jon Rosenthal beat Republican Bo French for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission after French conceded the race. The commission regulates Texas’s oil-and-gas industry, and Rosenthal is the first Democrat to hold a seat there in more than three decades. It has three members, with Republicans retaining the other two. The win breaks a long absence, but leaves Republicans with the majority.

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