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Stronger performance from its distribution operations, retail energy operations and wholesale services segments helped drive AGL Resources Inc.’s 1Q2010 net income to $134 million ($1.74 cents/share), an increase of 12.6% compared with $119 million ($1.55) in 1Q2009, the Atlanta-based company said.

Stronger performance from its distribution operations, retail energy operations and wholesale services segments helped drive AGL Resources Inc.’s 1Q2010 net income to $134 million ($1.74 cents/share), an increase of 12.6% compared with $119 million ($1.55) in 1Q2009, the Atlanta-based company said.

The bulging natural gas supply is one of the three “major themes” — the other two being world oil prices and climate change policy — that will drive U.S. energy policy in the years ahead, said the head of a Washington, DC-based nonprofit energy and environmental research group Tuesday. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu called shale gas a “big deal” because “gas will be [the] transition fuel as [we] go to renewables.”

The bulging natural gas supply is one of the three “major themes” — the other two being world oil prices and climate change policy — that will drive U.S. energy policy in the years ahead, said the head of a Washington, DC-based nonprofit energy and environmental research group Tuesday. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu called shale gas a “big deal” because “gas will be [the] transition fuel as [we] go to renewables.”

The drive to put natural gas on the road has influential congressional supporters, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-OK, said last Wednesday, commenting on testimony by the head of a natural gas vehicle coalition before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

The drive to put natural gas on the road has influential congressional supporters, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-OK, said Wednesday, commenting on testimony by the head of a natural gas vehicle coalition before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

The drive to put natural gas on the road has influential congressional supporters, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-OK, said Wednesday, commenting on testimony by the head of a natural gas vehicle coalition before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), one of the Senate’s key opponents to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) drive to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA), has called on agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to provide more details on how its program would work.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), one of the Senate’s key opponents to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) drive to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA), has called on agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to provide more details on how its program would work.