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The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee late Wednesday voted out legislation to restrict greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, laying the groundwork for a major fight between Democrats and Republicans on the floor next year.

With its plans to explore for oil and natural gas in the Beaufort Sea offshore Alaska scuttled by a court fight, an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell plc has begun releasing contract workers and may disband its offshore fleet.

With its plans to explore for oil and natural gas in the Beaufort Sea offshore Alaska for now scuttled by a court fight, an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell plc has begun releasing contract workers and may disband its offshore fleet, the company said.

Proving that it plans to stay in the fight to the end to acquire the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) once again Thursday urged CBOT stockholders and members to reject the proposed sale to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) by voting “no” on July 9.

As part of his ongoing fight to block the Broadwater Energy LLC liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has called on a New York state agency to reject a permit for the controversial deepwater LNG terminal proposed for Long Island Sound.

As part of his ongoing fight to block the Broadwater Energy LLC liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has called on a New York state agency to reject a permit for the controversial deepwater LNG terminal proposed for Long Island Sound.

With its senior officers declaring they will win the fight, the sponsors of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in Long Beach (CA) harbor fired shots in three different directions Thursday — in a state court, at city hall and in the FERC corridors in Washington, DC. In the end, Sound Energy Solutions (SES) expects to be vindicated before the Port of Long Beach Harbor Commission.

A federal district court in Salt Lake City late Wednesday handed the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) a defeat in its fight to open up more federal lands to oil and natural gas leasing, ruling that BLM violated federal environmental laws when it sold leases on 16 parcels of so-called “wilderness-quality lands” in southern Utah.

In the simmering federal-state fight over liquefied natural gas (LNG) siting jurisdiction, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger weighed in earlier this month by writing to U.S. Senate energy committee leaders, urging that they not preempt state jurisdiction.