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The 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially begins June 1, will have “reduced activity” compared with 1981-2010 averages, according to forecasters at Colorado State University (CSU). A quiet hurricane season could provide some solace to the nation’s energy interests, which saw relatively warm weather crush demand and prices last winter.

California lawmakers are rekindling an effort that died last year to place chemical disclosure requirements on oil and natural gas producers that use hydraulic fracturing (fracking) well stimulation.

Delaware has issued an air quality construction permit and awarded grant money to NRG Energy Inc. as it begins a $26.5 million project to convert one of its power plants from coal to natural gas.

The Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission (MSAC) released its final report on Friday and now Pennsylvania policymakers in the executive and legislative branches must decide which recommendations to keep, which to change and which to toss.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking initial public comments as it begins an environmental assessment (EA) on the proposed Western Expansion Project II, a 95-mile, 16-inch diameter natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline proposed by Enterprise Mid-America Pipeline.

South Korea’s state-run Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS), the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) buyer, is joining the Cordova Embayment natural gas project in British Columbia.

When the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season officially begins Wednesday (June 1), it will usher in five months of active tropical storm production, including a “significant threat for hurricane landfall” in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), forecasters at Andover, MA-based WSI Corp. said last week.

When the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season officially begins next Wednesday (June 1), it will usher in five months of active tropical storm production, including a “significant threat for hurricane landfall” in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), forecasters at Andover, MA-based WSI Corp. said Tuesday.

The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially begins June 1, is likely to produce above-average numbers of tropical storms, according to a growing list of forecasters, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) and MDA EarthSat Weather.