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In a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue criticized the Obama administration for its failure to provide more information on its draft five-year leasing program for the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and to reach an agreement with coastal states on the sharing of royalties from offshore production.

A leading Republican senator on energy issues last Tuesday criticized the cap-and-trade legislation proposed by Sens. Joesph Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA) that seeks to reduce heat-trapping greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

A leading Republican senator on energy issues Tuesday criticized the cap-and-trade legislation proposed by Sens. Joesph Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA) that seeks to reduce heat-trapping greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Criticized in the past for not spending enough to find and recover new oil and natural gas reserves, ExxonMobil Corp. is boosting its capital spending by about 20% to $25 billion this year and said it plans to pend at least that much every year until 2012.

Criticized in the past for not spending enough to find and recover new oil and natural gas reserves, ExxonMobil Corp. Wednesday said it would increase its capital spending by about 20% to $25 billion this year and spend at least that much every year until 2012.

Even the long-criticized White House has come to agree that nationally and internationally “climate change must be one of the drivers of energy policy at every level,” California’s chief regulator, Michael Peevey, told a receptive audience last Wednesday in San Francisco before the Business Council for Sustainable Energy’s 2007 conference.

Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) Tuesday criticized a subcommittee panel’s approval of an appropriations measure that would prohibit producers from bidding on future offshore leases unless they agree to renegotiate the flawed 1998 and 1999 leases they currently hold.

After being roundly criticized by former members of the Enron Task Force and ex-Enron employees, prosecutors in Houston indicated they may appeal the six-year prison term given to ex-CFO Andrew Fastow last month (see Daily GPI, Sept. 27).

California regulators Thursday approved a sweeping set of rules for natural gas transmission and storage operations throughout the state, along with establishing a process for resolving the emerging issue of regulating gas quality and heating value from the expected influx of liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports into the state.