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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has made an unusual filing at FERC, calling on the Commission to review and approve or reject the proposed Constitution Pipeline because there already are a number of competing pipeline projects to carry Marcellus Shale gas to New York.

A coalition of environmental groups is calling on Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to enact a moratorium on natural gas drilling in West Virginia until the industry and regulators with the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) meet several conditions.

The physical market overall on average fell about 2 cents Wednesday in spite of short-term weather forecasts calling for warm temperatures and much of the Gulf of Mexico production shut-in. Midwest and eastern points were weak but California locations managed modest gains. At the close of futures trading the expired September contract had managed a 2.0 cent gain, reversing a string of four losses to $2.634 and October had gained 5.2 cents to $2.685. October crude oil fell 84 cents to $95.49/bbl.

Controversial former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz left his job at the end of April, but his fingerprints are on an agency rule calling for stricter ozone standards that would affect Barnett Shale natural gas interests in Wise County, TX, energy companies and industry groups said.

Controversial former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz left his job at the end of April, but his fingerprints are on an agency rule calling for stricter ozone standards that would affect Barnett Shale natural gas interests in Wise County, TX, energy companies and industry groups said.

Concerns over natural gas development and its potential to cause earthquakes continue to linger in Johnson County, TX, after the area has experienced about 10 modest quakes during the last month.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett on Wednesday added his voice to the chorus of state officials calling for construction of a petrochemical complex, including an ethane cracker, in Beaver County, PA.

Institutional investor groups representing trillions of dollars in assets have called on the oil and natural gas industry to use best practice control technologies to reduce global methane emissions from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of unconventional wells.

Gov. Bev Perdue issued an executive order on Monday calling on various state agencies to organize a work group to study hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and then make recommendations for the best ways to regulate the practice.