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Saying daily demand exceeds its capacity, Southern issued Wednesday an OFO Type 3 Level 2 allocating deliveries at 16 groups on its system.

Officials from one of two Colorado cities to halt hydraulic fracturing (fracking) within its boundaries, Commerce City, heard from a panel of experts that a permanent ban against the oil/gas industry drilling technology is not possible, and besides, the state already closely regulates the practice.

Two environmental groups in California have sued the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to prevent the use of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the Monterey Shale play in north-central parts of the state.

Texas regulators Wednesday approved new air emissions rules affecting producers in the Barnett Shale of North Texas. Industry groups have said the rules are too strict, while environmentalists said they don’t go far enough.

A coalition of conservancy and stakeholder groups critical of Pennsylvania’s natural gas drilling said Monday the state needs to slow the shale drilling pace to ensure that safeguards are in place to protect citizens.

The Philadelphia City Council unanimously passed a resolution last Thursday directing the city to join a lawsuit against the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) over Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin.

Major producer groups have called on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to give them more time to comment on the proposed rules aimed at reducing air pollution from oil and natural gas operations.

Major producer groups have called on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to give them more time to comment on the proposed standards to reduce air pollution from oil and natural gas production, especially operations employing hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

Natural gas groups have embraced the Department of Energy’s (DOE) decision to measure the energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of energy products, such as natural gas, electricity, oil and coal, from the time they are extracted or generated to the point of end-use consumption.