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The GPA Midstream Association on Tuesday continued to raise concerns about a 658-page report released by Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force earlier this year, saying the work could serve as a template for duplicative state and local laws in other parts of the country.

The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) Thursday said it plans to develop a proposed rule requiring companies who make chemical substances and mixtures used in hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to report data on the chemicals.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich unveiled his proposed biennial executive budget on Monday, which includes a two-tier severance tax structure that would, for the first time, differentiate between horizontal and vertical wells drilled into the emerging Utica Shale.

Water well testing procedures used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) near natural gas drilling sites in Pavillion, WY, were flawed, leading to results that failed to account for naturally occurring chemicals, Encana Corp. officials claimed on Tuesday.

The Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) — the pipeline development initiative of former Gov. Sarah Palin — used a flawed financial analysis and overstated the “economic vitality” of the project, making the prospects for construction of an actual pipeline “doubtful,” according to an analysis by a petroleum economist who used to work for the state.

The Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) — the pipeline development initiative of former Gov. Sarah Palin — used a flawed financial analysis and overstated the “economic vitality” of the project, making the prospects for construction of an actual pipeline “doubtful,” according to an analysis by a petroleum economist who used to work for the state.

The FERC Enforcement Staff, responding to claims by Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) that FERC’s price calculations were flawed, defended its use of basis price quotes as part of its charge that ETP manipulated the physical gas market to create an artificial gas price that benefited its financial market position. A public version of the latest salvo from the regulatory agency was made available last Tuesday.

The FERC Enforcement Staff, responding to claims by Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) that FERC’s price calculations were flawed, defended its use of basis price quotes as part of its charge that ETP manipulated the physical gas market to create an artificial gas price that benefited its financial market position. A public version of the latest salvo from the regulatory agency was made available Tuesday.

Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski told FERC Dec. 18 that the draft environmental review of the proposed Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) project is “incomplete and flawed.” Two federal agencies — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — expressed similar concerns as well.