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With the retirement of its last diesel buses, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) moved to 100% clean-fuel buses Wednesday, the first major city transit system in the nation to do so. All but a handful of the buses run on compressed natural gas (CNG).

With the retirement of its last diesel buses, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) moved to 100% clean-fuel buses Wednesday, the first major city transit system in the nation to do so. All but a handful of the buses run on compressed natural gas (CNG).

The Chesapeake Bay, long plagued by pollution from development across its 64,000-square-mile watershed, is showing “some encouraging signs of improvement,” but is still “dangerously out of balance” and needs to be protected from a variety of threats, including natural gas drilling operations in the Marcellus Shale, according to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s (CBF) “2010 State of the Bay” report.

Pennsylvania’s county conservation districts would reclaim authority over erosion and sediment control in the Marcellus Shale under legislation that Republican state Rep. Karen Boback said she will introduce in September.

Pennsylvania’s county conservation districts would reclaim authority over erosion and sediment control in the Marcellus Shale under legislation that Republican state Rep. Karen Boback said she will introduce in the House next month.

In last Thursday’s story titled “Senate Amendment Would Preserve FERC’s Market Authority” (see Daily GPI, May 20), NGI incorrectly stated that both the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission carried out legal action against Amaranth Advisors LLC and its principal over the manipulation of gas futures prices in 2006. Both agencies have carried out legal action only against Amaranth Advisors LLC. NGI regrets the error.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LAMTA), the largest public transportation system in car-laden Southern California, is operating the nation’s largest natural gas-powered bus fleet, and Seal Beach, CA-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. said Tuesday it has signed a contract to upgrade four of LAMTA’s fueling stations.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LAMTA), the largest public transportation system in car-laden Southern California, is operating the nation’s largest natural gas-powered bus fleet, and Seal Beach, CA-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. said Tuesday it has signed a contract to upgrade four of LAMTA’s fueling stations.

Spectra Energy Partners has signed a precedent agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for an expansion of its East Tennessee Natural Gas (ETNG) pipeline system to provide firm transportation service of up to 150 MMcf/d to TVA’s proposed 880 MW combined-cycle power plant in northeast Tennessee.