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Upon consideration of revised and additional data, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken back its criticism of the Sabal Trail Pipeline, a project of Spectra Energy Corp. and NextEra Energy Inc.

Speaking from Paris, where officials were wrapping up negotiations on an international climate pact this week, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy offered her take on the recent shift from coal to natural gas for U.S. electric generation.

A group of environmental organizations said Monday that of the 700,000 comments submitted in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposals to cut methane and air pollution from new and modified oil and gas industry sources, 71,000 of them came from Ohio.

North Carolina has sent back grant funds that it received from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study the effects of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on surface water quality.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it is discontinuing the public comment period of its draft research report on alleged groundwater contamination from natural gas wells drilled near Pavillion, WY, which formally brings the agency’s inquiry into the matter to a close.

U.S. natural gas marketers were in the midst of a full tactical retreat in the second quarter, with only seven of 24 companies reporting higher numbers compared with the same quarter last year, resulting in an 11% (14.82 Bcf/d) overall decline in gas sales transactions in 2Q2013 compared with 2Q2012, according toNGI’s 2Q2013 Top North American Gas Marketers Ranking.

It will be some years before tanker loads of liquefied natural gas (LNG) steam out of U.S. ports, but shale gas is already having an impact on world markets “because of all the LNG the U.S. is not importing,” U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Monday.

The governor and air quality regulators in Colorado are seeking broad-based input and support for a new set of air emissions rules applied to oil and natural gas drilling as evidenced by Gov. John Hickenlooper’s move on Monday to assure a smooth regulatory process.

BP plc has sued the U.S. government to overturn a suspension from federal contracts for most of its entities, including the exploration and production (E&P) arm.