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The Independent Oil & Gas Association of West Virginia (IOGA) has filed an emergency motion asking FERC to correct “serious errors” that it claims the agency made by suspending Equitrans L.P.’s proposed 156% rate increase for only one day and in waiving the 30-day notice requirement under the Natural Gas Act (NGA).

Nevada’s state consumer advocate has filed a motion with the Nevada Public Utilities Commission urging regulators to reject the commission staff’s latest recommendation to almost double the rate increase requested by Las Vegas-based Southwest Gas Corp. The utility originally asked for a $16.3 million rate increase last June, but the PUC staff increased that total to $30.6 million.

Nevada’s state consumer advocate has filed a motion with the Nevada Public Utilities Commission urging regulators to reject the commission staff’s latest recommendation to almost double the rate increase requested by Las Vegas-based Southwest Gas Corp. The utility originally asked for a $16.3 million rake increase last June, but the PUC staff increased that total to $30.6 million.

Continuing the seesaw motion of trading over and under the $6 mark over the past couple of weeks, September natural gas futures on Monday dropped 29.9 cents to settle at $5.813. Action was fairly lively on the day as 93,882 contracts changed hands.

Chromium 6 — the toxic chemical that made Erin Brockovich famous four years ago through a motion picture — has surfaced as an issue again related to Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s natural gas transmission system at the Arizona-California border.

Chromium 6 — the toxic chemical that made famous Erin Brockovich, the woman and the motion picture, four years ago — has surfaced as an issue again related to Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s natural gas transmission system at the Arizona-California border.

NiSource subsidiary Northern Indiana Public Service (NIPSCO) filed a motion for clarification of an order issued by Indiana regulators in September that will require the utility to refund gas customers $3.8 million and make significant modifications to its use and valuation of gas storage, and its hedging and gas volatility mitigation measures. However, the company decided late on Friday not to appeal the order, said NIPSCO spokesman Larry Graham.

NiSource subsidiary Northern Indiana Public Service (NIPSCO) has filed a motion for clarification of an order issued by Indiana regulators in September that will require the utility to refund gas customers $3.8 million and make significant modifications to its use and valuation of gas storage, and its hedging and gas volatility mitigation measures. It was the first time Indiana regulators had ordered a refund based on NIPSCO’s purchased gas adjustment (PGA) mechanism.

In an emergency motion filed at FERC this week, El Paso Corp. is seeking to quash a subpoena issued by an agency judge that requires it to turn over documentary evidence related to its self-avowed practice of submitting false prices for natural gas trades to an energy publication.