Impact

President Obama’s fiscal 2013 budgets for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Energy (DOE) and Department of Interior (DOI) propose funding directed at assessing the impact of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of shale.

Pennsylvania state lawmakers have apparently reached a deal for the impact fee they hope to impose on natural gas drilling by splitting the difference between two competing proposals.

As it goes with producers, so it goes with the midstream: liquids-rich gas is the most desirable to have and to handle, and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP’s Boardwalk Field Services LLC is expanding its systems accordingly.

The number of permits for horizontal natural gas wells in Ohio’s portion of the Utica and Point Pleasant was on the rise in the closing months of 2011, according to the state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

The impact of Marcellus Shale drilling on air quality is shaping up to be a major issue this year.

The impact of Marcellus Shale drilling on air quality is shaping up to be a major issue this year.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revise information in a 2010 document that “erroneously overestimates” methane emissions, volatile organic compounds (VOC) and hazardous air pollutants (HAP) associated with shale gas well completions.

Trends toward milder temperatures prompted price declines at a large majority of points Friday. The bearish weekend impact of reduced industrial load was heightened by the Christmas holiday being taken off Monday.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Thursday published a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) describing how offshore oil and natural gas activities in the U.S. Beaufort and Chukchi seas could affect marine mammals and the Alaska Native communities that depend on them for subsistence.