Advocacy

A broad coalition of industry, trade and consumer advocacy groups has called on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to narrowly interpret the sweeping Wall Street Reform Act when proposing and implementing rules.

An official with a major New York-based environmental advocacy group said he supports the practice of hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) in the production of shale gas, and believes it can be done safely, despite what critics claim.

A coalition of more than 25 environment, conservation and advocacy organizations last Thursday sent letters to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the House Energy and Commerce Committee requesting information about whether service companies broke the law when they allegedly injected diesel fuel during the hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracing) processes to produce shale natural gas.

A coalition of more than 25 environment, conservation and advocacy organizations Thursday sent letters to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the House Energy and Commerce Committee requesting information about whether service companies broke the law when they allegedly injected diesel fuel during the hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracing) processes to produce shale natural gas.

As the Justice Department went to court Thursday to reinstate the six-month moratorium on deepwater oil and natural gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), a Washington, DC-based advocacy group reported that the three Fifth Circuit judges assigned to the case have close ties to the industry.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) Wednesday blasted a report authored by a coalition of 29 environmental advocacy groups that calls for the incoming Obama administration to reinstate the moratorium on oil and natural gas drilling off the East and Pacific coasts.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) last Wednesday blasted a report authored by a coalition of 29 environmental advocacy groups that calls for the incoming Obama administration to reinstate the moratorium on oil and natural gas drilling off the East and Pacific coasts.

Faulty wireless meter-reading transponders are the source of a controversy brewing in Utah between Questar Gas and its customers and advocacy groups as the utility attempts to back-bill approximately 500 of its customers nearly $500,000.

Faulty wireless meter-reading transponders are the source of a controversy brewing in Utah between Questar Gas and its customers and advocacy groups as the utility attempts to back-bill approximately 500 of its customers nearly $500,000.