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Given the push for renewable energy to address climate change, natural gas increasingly will play a key role in energy policy in the years ahead, according to FERC Commissioner Philip Moeller and three state regulators from the Pacific Northwest.

The market may have given up on a 2010 recovery in natural gas prices, but “we think it’s still to early to punt,” analysts with Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities Inc. (TPH) said Wednesday.

The market may have given up on a 2010 recovery in natural gas prices, but “we think it’s still to early to punt,” analysts with Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities Inc. (TPH) said last week.

While saying he is bullish on natural gas — given climate drivers, economic and ultimate global supply optionality for the fuel — a ConocoPhillips market research expert last Tuesday predicted continued vacillations between oversupply and undersupply in the nation’s natural gas markets for the foreseeable future.

Saying he is bullish on natural gas given climate drivers, economic and ultimate global supply optionality for the fuel, a ConocoPhillips market research expert Tuesday predicted continued vacillations between oversupply and undersupply in the nation’s natural gas markets for the foreseeable future.

Given robust gas production from unconventional plays and abundant gas in storage, the American Gas Association (AGA) Monday predicted that consumers will enjoy lower gas bills this winter compared with last year.

FERC has given a favorable environmental assessment (EA) to two related expansions proposed by Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) to carry Rocky Mountain natural gas to Northeast markets.

FERC has given Houston-based Vista Energy Marketing LP (VEM) approval to sell wholesale electricity at market-based rates following the agency’s months-long investigation into past wrongdoing of two key officials.

Nine nationwide projects designed to improve water resource management practices at shale gas and coalbed methane (CBM) drilling sites were given a green light to move forward with funding from the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). The projects come at an opportune time as state and federal regulators scrutinize hydraulic fracturing at oil and gas drilling sites (see related stories).