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Texas House lawmakers Sunday night voted to require public disclosure of the chemicals in fluids used for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) after disparities with legislation passed earlier by the Senate (see Shale Daily, May 27) were hammered out in conference committee.

Growing production from the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas has prompted Plains All American Pipeline LP (PAA) to agree to build a new 130-mile crude oil and condensate pipeline, a marine terminal facility and 1.5 million bbl of storage capacity, the Houston-based partnership said Tuesday.

The U.S. Department of the Interior has approved the Cape Wind project on federal submerged lands in Nantucket Sound, MA, but will require the wind farm’s developer to agree to additional binding measures to minimize the facility’s potential adverse impacts, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday.

While two prominent lawmakers have said they found room to agree on comprehensive climate change legislation in the Senate, the potential cost of a House climate change bill (HR 2454) still has some senators shaking their heads.

Skeptics and supporters alike agree that a key part of California’s latest multi-billion-dollar, three-year energy efficiency initiative will be control of how the money is spent and measurement of verifiable energy savings that result. Both the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and its independent consumer unit raised this issue during the debate leading up to the CPUC decision Sept. 24.

Skeptics and supporters alike agree that a key part of California’s latest multi-billion-dollar, three-year energy efficiency initiative will be control of how the money is spent and measurement of verifiable energy savings that result. Both the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and its independent consumer unit raised this issue during the debate leading up to the CPUC decision last Thursday (see Daily GPI, Sept. 25).

World leaders must agree on “an ambitious, robust and equitable global deal on climate change that responds credibly to the scale and urgency of the crisis facing the world today,” according to The Copenhagen Communique, a statement published last week by the business leaders of more than 500 companies from around the world that participated in the UN Summit on Climate Change in New York.

World leaders must agree on “an ambitious, robust and equitable global deal on climate change that responds credibly to the scale and urgency of the crisis facing the world today,” according to The Copenhagen Communique, a statement published jointly Tuesday by the business leaders of more than 500 companies from around the world that participated in the UN Summit on Climate Change in New York.

Consultants hired by the staff of the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) agree that a critical need exists for electric reliability improvements by 2011 in northern Virginia and recommend that Dominion Virginia Power’s proposed route for a transmission line would meet that need with the least impact to the state, the Richmond, VA-based utility said Wednesday.