Ellen Beswick

As the U.S. House of Representatives was considering an appropriations bill rider to block the administration’s proposed rule broadening waterways oversight under the Clean Water Act (CWA), a bipartisan group of senators Thursday offered legislation to send the rule back to the drawing board.

The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, several FERC commissioners and numerous state public utility commissioners, along with electric power and natural gas company representatives will be offering their views on “Redesigning Wholesale and Retail Energy Markets” at a two-day conference April 29-May 1 in Washington, DC.

The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, several FERC commissioners and numerous state public utility commissioners, along with electric power and natural gas company representatives will be offering their views on “Redesigning Wholesale and Retail Energy Markets” at a two-day conference April 29-May 1 in Washington, DC.

While regulators and lawmakers wrangle with safety standards for shipping crude oil by rail, interest is growing in shipping liquefied natural gas (LNG) by rail as well.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) currently is conducting research and analysis into ways to control the volatility of highly flammable crude oil and expects to have the project completed by this fall, according to testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee budget hearing Wednesday.

March futures led off its run as the prompt month on a downward track, tumbling 26.7 cents to close out the week Friday at $2.69, after storage withdrawals failed to live up to their advance billing, but some weather forecasters saw encouragement in some possibly approaching cold weather.

In the last two weeks, two veteran national oil and gas organizations have announced they are opening Washington, DC, operations to lobby for the midstream oil and natural gas industry.

Two opponents of the FERC-approved Dominion Cove Point LNG LP export project have asked the Commission to stay work on the project while it considers their rehearing request, saying that by delaying action on rehearing they are blocking a court appeal.

Two opponents of the FERC-approved Dominion Cove Point LNG LP export project have asked the Commission to stay work on the project while it considers their rehearing request, saying that by delaying action on rehearing they are blocking a court appeal.