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Natural gas groups Wednesday said they were hopeful the Obama administration will provide a more cohesive energy policy during the president’s second term, at the same time urging various industry segments to speak to lawmakers and the public with one voice on hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

Federal regulators are seeking to toughen regulations for interstate natural gas pipelines following two deadly explosions that rocked the West and East Coasts within the past year.

Federal regulators are seeking to toughen regulations for interstate natural gas pipelines following two deadly explosions that rocked the West and East Coasts within the past year.

The Obama administration has rescinded a decision to allow offshore drilling in the gassy eastern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and portions of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts because of the Deepwater Horizon tragedy, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday.

Weaver’s Cove Energy’s fall-back proposal to site a controversial liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the middle of Mount Hope Bay off the coasts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts and transport the LNG onshore by pipeline may be doable without interfering with other commercial and recreational vessels, according to a report from the U.S. Coast Guard.

Weaver’s Cove Energy’s fall-back proposal to site a controversial liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the middle of Mount Hope Bay off the coasts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts and transport the LNG onshore may be doable without interfering with other commercial and recreational vessels, according to a report from the U.S. Coast Guard.

More than four years after it originally proposed construction of a deepwater liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal to be sited on a man-made island off the coasts of New York and New Jersey, Atlantic Sea Island Group LLC (ASIG) has shelved the project, citing the recent retirement of ASIG founder and CEO Howard Bovers and current economic conditions.

More than four years after it originally proposed construction of a deepwater liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal to be sited on a man-made island off the coasts of New York and New Jersey, Atlantic Sea Island Group LLC (ASIG) has shelved the project, citing the recent retirement of ASIG founder and CEO Howard Bovers and current economic conditions.

The oil and natural gas industry Wednesday generally welcomed the Obama administration’s proposed plan to open up the South Atlantic and Mid-Atlantic coasts and parts of the eastern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) to expanded exploratory and development activities, saying it was a good start. But others, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and American Solutions, noted the the proposed plan was far from a sure thing, with President Obama stressing that the offshore areas “will be considered potential areas for development.”