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Proxy adviser Glass, Lewis & Co. is recommending that Chesapeake Energy Corp. shareholders withhold their votes for three board members facing reelection because of CEO Aubrey McClendon’s compensation package.

Proxy adviser Glass, Lewis & Co. is recommending that Chesapeake Energy Corp. shareholders withhold their votes for three board members facing reelection because of CEO Aubrey McClendon’s compensation package.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Edward Markey (D-CA) have given into the Republican members’ request to hold one more hearing to explore the cost of cap-and-trade legislation. The hearing is scheduled for Friday.

State legislation to roll back Montana’s natural gas and oil tax holiday failed to move out of the House Taxation Committee Friday after 10 committee members voted for the bill and 10 voted against it.

Republican members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives last Tuesday unveiled a plan to further tap into prolific Marcellus Shale deposits by expanding natural gas drilling to 390,000 acres of state forest land over the next three years — a proposal one conservation group quickly labeled “irresponsible.”

Republican members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday unveiled a plan to further tap into prolific Marcellus Shale deposits by expanding natural gas drilling to 390,000 acres of state forest land over the next three years — a proposal one conservation group quickly labeled “irresponsible.”

While heavy snows forced cancellation of workshops for another utility’s rate case, the three members of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission (PUC) huddled in Boise Tuesday and approved a 4.7% rate decrease for Spokane, WA-based Avista Utilities’ 72,000 retail natural gas customers in northern and north-central Idaho.

Three newly elected members of the five-member Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) were sworn into office Monday. Sandra Kennedy, Paul Newman and Bob Stump, all of whom have held past elected local and state offices, joined existing Commissioners Kris Mayes and Gary Pierce.

With the runoff win of Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) Tuesday, the Democrats’ hopes of obtaining a filibuster-proof majority of 60 members in the Senate died. But they remained undeterred, saying they have the support to fend off GOP efforts to derail major legislation.