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Forty-three senators and 10 House lawmakers sent letters last week to the Bush administration expressing their dismay with a recent federal court ruling that could exempt producers from the payment of royalties on oil and natural gas produced from deepwater leases acquired between 1996 and 2000, a move that would cost the federal government billions of dollars.

“North of 30” senators and up to 10 House lawmakers have sent letters to the Bush administration expressing their dismay with last week’s federal court ruling that could exempt producers from the payment of royalties on oil and natural gas produced from deepwater leases acquired between 1996 and 2000, a move that would cost the federal government billions of dollars.

Expressing strong dissatisfaction with what it considers California’s one-sided energy approach, the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) late last month unanimously voted to reject the proposed second Devers-to-Palo-Verde (DPV2) high-voltage interstate transmission line by Rosemead, CA-based Southern California Edison Co. Edison is the majority owner/operator of the existing high-voltage interstate line along the same route.

Expressing concern over the electric sector’s lack of scheduling coordination with natural gas pipelines, FERC last Wednesday instituted a Section 206 inquiry under the Federal Power Act (FPA) into the scheduling and compensation practices of independent system operators (ISOs) and regional transmission organizations (RTOs).

The Minerals Management Service (MMS) has issued a safety alert expressing its concern over the high number of deaths of offshore workers in the Gulf of Mexico so far this year.

The Minerals Management Service (MMS) has issued a safety alert expressing its concern over the high number of deaths of offshore workers in the Gulf of Mexico so far this year.

Four members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation sent a letter to the U.S. Coast Guard Wednesday expressing their opposition to the controversial proposed Weaver’s Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal to be located in Fall River, MA.

Canadian Ambassador Michael Wilson wrote a letter to FERC Chairman Joseph Kelliher this month expressing Canadian concerns about potential environmental, navigational and safety risks of liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker traffic in Canadian waters in the Bay of Fundy and Passamaquoddy Bay in transit to proposed LNG import terminals in Maine.

Arizona officials have now joined California environmental agencies in expressing concerns about Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s natural gas processing facility at the California-Arizona border that has released toxic chromium 6 into underground water that is migrating toward the Colorado River, a major source of drinking water in both states. Arizona environmental officials wrote to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control last week.