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Responding to pleas from commercial energy companies, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Friday proposed to loosen restrictions on the aggregation of speculative trades under its position limits rule. Under the rule as initially stated companies would have to aggregate with its own all the trades of any entities in which it had more than a 10% interest.

Responding to pleas from commercial energy companies, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Friday proposed to loosen restrictions on the aggregation of speculative trades under its position limits rule. Under the rule as initially stated companies would have to aggregate with its own all the trades of any entities in which it had more than a 10% interest.

A Washington Post editorial last Tuesday called on U.S. lawmakers to loosen some of the restrictions on oil and natural gas exploration and drilling in offshore regions that have been off limits to producers for years.

A Washington Post editorial Tuesday called on U.S. lawmakers to loosen some of the restrictions on oil and natural gas exploration and drilling in offshore regions that have been off limits to producers for years.

FERC’s proposal to loosen the rules for granting market-based rates for new natural gas storage projects, with the goal of speeding an increase in storage capacity and thereby mitigating market peaks and valleys and consequently price volatility, has brought a storm of comments from interested parties on how the rules should be written.