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The Obama administration on Wednesday denied the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline proposal on the recommendation of the U.S. State Department, saying at this time it is not in the U.S. national interest to build the 1,700-mile link from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

The Obama administration on Wednesday denied the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline proposal on the recommendation of the U.S. State Department, saying at this time it is not in the U.S. national interest to build the 1,700-mile link from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

A Pennsylvania judge has denied a request from a wealthy Pittsburgh suburb, apparently clearing the way for a controversial referendum that would ban hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to be placed on the Nov. 8 ballot, according to Peters Township Marcellus Shale Awareness (PTMSA), an environmental group that drafted the proposed referendum.

On the day before the one-year anniversary of the deadly San Bruno, CA, pipeline rupture and explosion last year, California regulators on Thursday denied Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s (PG&E) request to have future increases in natural gas pipeline operating pressures done by a regulatory staff executive.

FERC has approved Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s proposed changes to its pooling points to accommodate greater natural gas supplies coming from the Marcellus and Haynesville shale formations and the Rocky Mountain region.

FERC has denied a request by major gas shipper groups for the agency to use its Section 5 authority to order pipelines to amend their tariffs to comply with Commission policy on the crediting of reservation charges during service outages — both planned and unplanned. But the shipper associations did not walk away empty handed.

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, Friday denied a mining company’s petition to overturn FERC orders authorizing the construction of REX-East, the last leg of the Rockies Express Pipeline LLC (REX).

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, Friday denied a mining company’s petition to overturn FERC orders authorizing the construction of REX-East, the last leg of the Rockies Express Pipeline LLC (REX).

The U.S. Supreme Court last Monday denied Shell Oil Co.’s petition to review a whopping $54 million punitive damage award for the producer’s failure to pay a “net-profits interest” to the owners of an Oklahoma oil and natural gas lease.