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The Ohio House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted in favor of an energy bill that also creates new rules for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the state. The bill is to be sent to Gov. John Kasich for his signature.

A bill that would create rules governing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) passed a key committee in the state House of Representatives on Wednesday and is scheduled to be submitted to the full House for a floor vote on Thursday.

Eagle Ford operator Paloma Partners II LLC revealed on Wednesday that it is being taken over by Marathon Oil Corp. for $750 million in cash.

The House Natural Resources Committee plans to subpoena the Interior Department to obtain documents related to a report that allegedly had been altered to suggest that the National Academy of Engineering had endorsed a decision to impose a moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) in 2010.

The House Natural Resources Committee has subpoenaed the Interior Department to obtain documents related to a report that, after it had allegedly been altered, suggested that the National Academy of Engineering had endorsed a decision to impose a moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) in 2010.

The current debate over the impact of hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) on water supplies got stirred up last Wednesday by decades-old documents touted by proponents and critics of the process.

The current debate over the impact of hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) on water supplies got stirred up Wednesday by decades-old documents touted by both proponents and critics of the process.

Attorneys for the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and an EQT Corp. subsidiary plan to appeal a Doddridge County judge’s ruling allowing a surface owner to have a gas well permit issued by the DEP revoked.

In separate announcements late Tuesday, California regulators released documents on two major parts of the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) natural gas pipeline and storage system. In one, the utility admits it still has work to do on the recording and testing of more than 400 miles of its pipelines in highly populated areas, and in the second a proposed decision would set utility rates for pipelines and storage at more than half-a-billion-dollars annually for the next four years.