Agency

Confirmation Hearing of EPA Nominee Short on Expected Fireworks

President Obama’s nominee for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sailed through her confirmation hearing Thursday, fielding softball questions from Democrats. The issues raised by Republicans were more pointed, but not by much.

April 12, 2013

FERC OKs CenterPoint’s Pre-Filing Request for Arkansas Expansion

FERC has approved CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission LLC’s (CEGT) request to participate in the agency’s pre-filing process for a proposed pipeline system expansion in central Arkansas.

April 1, 2013

House Budget Bill Includes Energy Wish List

House Republicans last Tuesday called for greater access to oil and natural gas resources on public lands, restrictions on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority over the energy industry and for Congress to revisit flawed financial reform regulations in the Dodd-Frank law.

March 18, 2013

Devon Claims EPA Misused Natural Gas Emissions Data

Devon Energy Corp. is pulling out of a voluntary natural gas well emissions data gathering program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claiming the data has been “irresponsibly and inaccurately used to justify costly regulations” for unconventional drilling.

March 18, 2013

Devon Quits EPA Program Charging Misuse of Emissions Data

Devon Energy Corp. is pulling out of a voluntary natural gas well emissions data gathering program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) saying the data has been “irresponsibly and inaccurately used to justify costly regulations” for unconventional drilling.

March 13, 2013

Marcellus Water Study Finds Chloride and TSS Risk, But Spill Unlikely

Water samples taken downstream of facilities authorized to treat wastewater from natural gas wells in the Marcellus Shale had elevated concentrations of chloride but not total suspended solids (TSS), although the obverse was true in samples collected downstream of watersheds with shale gas wells drilled on them, according to a report published in the Proceedings of National Academies of Sciences (PNAS).

March 13, 2013

House Budget Bill Includes Energy Wish List

House Republicans Tuesday called for greater access to oil and natural gas resources on public lands, restrictions on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority over the energy industry and for Congress to revisit flawed financial reform regulations in the Dodd-Frank Law.

March 13, 2013

FERC OKs Pre-Filing for Southern LNG, Elba Projects

FERC has approved the request of Southern LNG Co. LLC and Elba Express Co. LLC (EEC) to use the agency’s pre-filing process for their planned Elba export liquefaction and related expansion projects.

March 11, 2013

FERC OKs Pre-Filing Process for Southern LNG, Elba Export Liquefaction

FERC has approved the request of Southern LNG Co. LLC and Elba Express Co. LLC (EEC) to use the agency’s pre-filing process for their planned Elba export liquefaction and related expansion projects.

March 5, 2013

More NatGas-Fired Generation Part of New Mexico Pact

State of New Mexico officials, Albuquerque-based utility PNM and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last Friday reached a tentative agreement on an emission reductions plan that would shutter two coal-fired generation units and create new natural gas-fired generation.

February 21, 2013
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