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Shortly after the company unveiled its staggering quarterly earnings report on Thursday, ExxonMobil Corp. launched a media blitz, accusing the White House and members of Congress of playing politics in their zeal to repeal annual tax incentives for the oil and gas industry.

Shortly after the company unveiled its staggering quarterly earnings report last week, ExxonMobil Corp. launched a media blitz, accusing the White House and members of Congress of playing politics in their zeal to repeal annual tax incentives for the oil and gas industry. Chevron Corp. executives on Friday also weighed in.

Despite a recent spate of negative media attention, hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) in the Marcellus Shale is still supported by a majority of the general public, according to the results of a poll conducted by the Rochester Business Journal (RBJ).

An explosion and fire at a Dallas industrial company Wednesday morning was not due to liquefied natural gas (LNG) — early media reports to the contrary notwithstanding.

Opponents of the project told local news media Friday that the final environmental review of the BHP Billiton proposed offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving platform 14 miles off the Southern California coast should be rejected by federal and state authorities because of air quality, marine life and safety impacts. They use the 3,000-page final environmental impact statement and report (EIS/EIR) as the basis for rejection.

Members of the jury in the trial of former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who had been together for four months, agreed to talk with the media about their deliberations on Thursday. They all said they didn’t buy Lay’s and Skilling’s testimony nor the evidence against them.

As the natural gas futures market dropped $9.330 cents from an all-time high of $15.780 in December 2005 to a low of $6.450 in March 2006, concerns from the mainstream media continue to grow that the market’s price swings might be attached to market manipulation.

In a move that drew widespread local news media attention, the Long Beach, CA, City Council last Tuesday at the last minute postponed until late June a decision on whether to break off two years of negotiations on behalf of its municipal energy department with the sponsors of a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in its harbor.

In a move that drew widespread local news media attention, the Long Beach, CA, City Council Tuesday evening at the last minute postponed until late next month a decision on whether to break off two years of negotiations on behalf of its municipal energy department with the sponsors of a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in its harbor.