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The five-member elected New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (PRC) selected a newcomer, Patrick Lyons, for its chairman on a split 3-2 vote Tuesday among the PRC members. Lyons is promoting a more pro-business approach to the state’s regulatory scheme.

Bart Chilton, a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Tuesday expressed his reluctance to support the agency’s proposal to establish position limits in the swaps market. He instead recommended that the CFTC institute an “interim position ‘points’ system.”

All Denver area power plants by the end of 2017 would burn natural gas instead of coal under a package of tentative approvals by the three-member Colorado Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).

All Denver area power plants by the end of 2017 would burn natural gas instead of coal under a package of tentative approvals by the three-member Colorado Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).

Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) member Elizabeth Ames Jones on Friday joined a chorus of those who are blasting the President Obama’s decision not to open new areas in the offshore to exploration.

Eagle Ford Gathering LLC, a joint venture (JV) of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP and Copano Energy LLC said it will provide services in the Eagle Ford Shale play in South Texas to Chesapeake Energy Marketing Inc. a unit of Chesapeake Energy Corp.

The 20-member board of directors of the national Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC) last week unanimously called for a complete disclosure of chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) process, which is used to develop most of the shale gas wells in the country.

The 20-member board of directors of the national Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC) on Wednesday unanimously called for a complete disclosure of chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) process, which is used to develop most of the shale gas wells in the country.

A member of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), Timothy Alan Simon, has been named chairman of the natural gas committee for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). Simon was named to the position in late August by NARUC’s current chairman, David Coen, a regulatory commissioner in Vermont. Simon and his committee will work with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and U.S. Department of Transportation.