Legislation

A bipartisan panel of West Virginia lawmakers seeking a consensus on possible Marcellus Shale regulatory reform are scheduled to meet Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning in Charleston.

None of the legislation to amend Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act being considered by the House Agriculture Committee “proposes dramatic changes to Dodd-Frank,” according to committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK).

A committee of West Virginia lawmakers voted Wednesday to recommend steep increases in permit fees and bonding requirements for Marcellus Shale drilling, resolving two key areas of disagreement as they work to cobble together a draft regulatory reform bill.

In response to new state legislation (SB 412), California regulators on Thursday revised the state’s incentive program for on-site power generation, allowing up to 25% of the awards to go to nonrenewable combined heat and power (CHP) self generation that includes natural gas-fired cogeneration.

The West Virginia Legislature is unlikely to draft legislation on Marcellus Shale regulatory reform before the end of the year, according to a state senator with a key role in the process.

A bipartisan panel of 10 West Virginia lawmakers is using legislation that failed to clear both chambers of the legislature earlier this year as the starting point for trying to reach a consensus over Marcellus Shale regulatory reform.

A bipartisan panel of 10 West Virginia lawmakers is using legislation that failed to clear both chambers of the legislature earlier this year as the starting point for trying to reach a consensus over Marcellus Shale regulatory reform.

It’s going to be more costly to conduct hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of shale gas wells in the future due to increased regulation, said a former official with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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