Coalition

Oregon state lawmakers are working to stop potential offshore oil/gas drilling along the state’s coastline and separately a business-labor coalition went to the state capital Wednesday to take aim at the legislature to correct what it characterizes as a flawed regulatory permitting system for energy infrastructure. To support the latter, Energy Action Northwest, the business-labor group, staged a rally in the rain seeking support of various proposed bills aimed at creating more jobs in the infrastructure sector.

A coalition of 13 House lawmakers led by Rep. Don Young of Alaska has called on the Interior Department’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to rely on sound science when designating critical habitat for polar bear populations in Alaska.

A business/labor coalition put its push for the development of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and related transmission pipeline into a full-page advertisement in the Portland Oregonian Sunday, urging Gov. Ted Kulongoski and the state legislature to back the major new natural gas infrastructure projects as a job-creating economic stimulus for the state.

A coalition of 15 House Republicans led by Rep. Doc Hastings of Washington sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Thursday urging him to move forward with a planned lease sale in “one of America’s best untapped” offshore regions — 181 South in the Central Gulf of Mexico — later this month.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) last Wednesday blasted a report authored by a coalition of 29 environmental advocacy groups that calls for the incoming Obama administration to reinstate the moratorium on oil and natural gas drilling off the East and Pacific coasts.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) Wednesday blasted a report authored by a coalition of 29 environmental advocacy groups that calls for the incoming Obama administration to reinstate the moratorium on oil and natural gas drilling off the East and Pacific coasts.

Buttressed by support from a coalition of futures market associations that include the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), Amaranth Advisors LLC last Wednesday again asked a New York district court to stay a FERC enforcement action against it until a parallel case by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is completed.

Buttressed by support from a coalition of futures market associations, including the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), Amaranth Advisors LLC on Wednesday again asked a New York district court to stay a FERC enforcement action against it until a parallel case by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is completed.

A district court judge in Washington, DC has blown a major hole in a lawsuit brought by a coalition of 18 Midwest municipal gas utilities accusing five major natural gas companies of engaging in activities to “control and unlawfully” raise the price of gas in the United States in restraint of trade or commerce.