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As the Senate prepares to vote on a comprehensive energy reform bill as early as this week, a number of Senate Democrats are pushing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to expand its proposed oil and gas methane emissions limits.

As the Senate prepares to vote on a comprehensive energy reform bill as early as this week, a number of Senate Democrats are pushing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to expand its proposed oil and gas methane emissions limits.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) hinted during a hearing this week that the comprehensive energy bill passed last summer through the Committee on Energy & Natural Resources could soon reach the Senate floor for a vote.

The decades-old ban on U.S. oil exports may be coming to an end.

The House of Representatives passed an energy bill Thursday with language that would, among other things, speed up federal authorization of interstate pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals.

A new bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives could accelerate the hiring process for federal pipeline inspectors.

The Obama administration has officially threatened to veto a bill expected to pass the House of Representatives on Friday that would lift a ban on most domestically produced crude oil exports, but such a move could be tricky if the bill wins more Democratic support.

A bipartisan bill that would limit liabilities for any Pennsylvania oil and natural gas producer that uses treated coal mine water to drill and stimulate its wells has passed both the state House and Senate by wide margins and has been sent to Gov. Tom Wolf to sign into law.

Senate Democrats’ new 437-page national energy bill mentions “greenhouse gas” on 30 pages and “natural gas” on 33. Natural gas gets more pages than runners-up “oil” (30), “solar” (29) and “geothermal” (24), and far more than wind, coal or nuclear. Not all natural gas mentions convey good news for gas interests, though.