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Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Michael Krancer said a recent report by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) was “incorrect and inapplicable to Pennsylvania in many respects,” and urged the environmental group to reconsider its labeling of natural gas as a “dirty fossil fuel.”

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Friday reiterated the importance of natural gas to the Obama administration’s energy and job-creation programs. Salazar said his department is very active in efforts to boost gas development both on and offshore in the United States.

BP plc was the only one of the top five U.S. producers of natural gas that also showed up among the top five gas marketers in 2010, according to an analysis by Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI) of federal filings that showed a 6% gain in trading in 2010 over 2009.

Six natural gas and power groups have asked FERC to consider temporary forbearance or amnesty for energy companies while they struggle to adapt to Commission’s new role as an enforcement agency, as well as to make revisions to its enforcement procedures to dispel industry concerns that FERC is acting as both “judge and jury.”

Lead participants in a major report by the National Petroleum Council (NPC), which was adopted Wednesday, urged Congress and other energy policymakers to use the report’s conclusions and recommendations to guide their future actions.

North American natural gas over the next 20 years will expand in use, price and power generation, and in Nevada the pace will be even brisker, according to a consultant’s study done last year and made public this month by Sierra Pacific Resources’ two Nevada private-sector utilities. The Nevada Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has had a confidential version of the report since June.

They may vary on their conclusions by about half a percentage point, but Lehman Brothers and Raymond James analysts agree in new energy research reports that 3Q North American natural gas production continued to decline year-over-year despite an upsurge in drilling activity.

They may vary on their conclusions by about half a percentage point, but Lehman Brothers and Raymond James analysts agree in new energy research reports that 3Q North American natural gas production continued to decline year-over-year despite an upsurge in drilling activity.

While she hasn’t come to any firm conclusions as to possible changes that may need to be made in the collection and dissemination of natural gas prices in the wake of revelations that certain traders apparently reported false data to various trade publications, FERC Commissioner Nora Brownell said on Wednesday that her own personal opinion is that the government shouldn’t shoulder this responsibility.