Critic

The American Public Gas Association (APGA), a longtime critic of the opaqueness of over-the-counter (OTC) energy trading, on Monday praised a move by the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) to voluntarily report trade information to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), a long-time critic of expanded oil and natural gas drilling, has overreacted to the Interior Department’s drawing of an administrative line that places the eastern boundary of offshore Louisiana in the natural gas-prone eastern Gulf of Mexico, said spokesmen for the Interior Department and the offshore industry Tuesday.

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), a critic of drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), was expected to offer an amendment Tuesday to strike the pro-ANWR provision from the budget resolution now being considered on the Senate floor.

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), a harsh critic of FERC, has called on the Commission to purge its web site of what she claims are pornographic e-mails written by Enron Corp. employees. Federal rules ban employees from even looking at the kind of material that FERC has published on its Internet page, she said.