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In an interview with a Wyoming newspaper last week, former Minerals Management Service (MMS) director Johnnie Burton defended the agency’s oversight and inspections of oil and natural gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico during her tenure.

In an interview this week, former Minerals Management Service (MMS) director Johnnie Burton defended the agency’s oversight and inspections of oil and natural gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico during her tenure.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last Tuesday defended the agency’s endangerment finding for regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions against an onslaught of criticism from members of Congress, some of whom contend that it is based on faulty science and that the debate over whether global warming really exists is unsettled.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tuesday defended the agency’s endangerment finding for regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions against an onslaught of criticism from Senate Republicans who contend that it is based on faulty science and that the debate over whether global warming really exists is unsettled.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tuesday defended the agency’s endangerment finding for regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions against an onslaught of criticism from Senate Republicans who contend that it is based on faulty science and that the debate over whether global warming really exists is unsettled.

In an effort to prevent more defections by its membership, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Tuesday defended and clarified its position on House climate change legislation (HR 2454).

The FERC Enforcement Staff, responding to claims by Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) that FERC’s price calculations were flawed, defended its use of basis price quotes as part of its charge that ETP manipulated the physical gas market to create an artificial gas price that benefited its financial market position. A public version of the latest salvo from the regulatory agency was made available last Tuesday.

The FERC Enforcement Staff, responding to claims by Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) that FERC’s price calculations were flawed, defended its use of basis price quotes as part of its charge that ETP manipulated the physical gas market to create an artificial gas price that benefited its financial market position. A public version of the latest salvo from the regulatory agency was made available Tuesday.

Houston-based Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP vigorously defended its operating and environmental records in the wake of cutting a deal with the California attorney general’s office over a diesel fuel spill involving one of its pipeline operating subsidiaries. Since the incident last April, Kinder has replaced the multi-fuel pipeline in a $90 million investment in its northern California operations.