Meter Reading: Doctors Want Fracking Records, Judge Reverses Industry Tax Break, and More

Here are some of the stories we’re reading this morning about energy and the environment in Texas:

Texas Railroad Commission Candidates Target EPA – “One overriding theme unifies the Republican candidates for two Texas Railroad Commission slots: The Environmental Protection Agency has overreached and must be scaled back.” — Texas Tribune

Oil and gas equipment subject to sales tax, judge rules in reversal – “State District Judge John Dietz 
on Monday reversed his own preliminary decision and ruled that oil and gas extraction equipment is not exempt from the sales tax.” — Austin American-Statesman

Doctors Press Court to Release Records in Gas Fracking Case – “A Pennsylvania court should disclose the legal settlement between a family that claimed natural-gas drilling threatened its health and several gas producers, a group of physicians and researchers said.” — Bloomberg