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Temple University announced Wednesday that three faculty members will investigate the source of methane gas that has contaminated water wells near Marcellus Shale drilling sites in Susquehanna County, PA, and will also study how the debate over hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is affecting public policy.

Calling it a fresh look, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced a new multi-state environmental impact review on oil shale and tar sand plans in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. This could eventually impact the allocation of shale and tar sands resources.

Calling it a fresh look, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced Wednesday a new multi-state environmental impact review on oil shale and tar sand plans in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. This could eventually impact the allocation of shale and tar sands resources.

Calling it a fresh look, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced Wednesday a new multi-state environmental impact review on oil shale and tar sand plans in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. This could eventually impact the allocation of shale and tar sands resources.

FERC last Thursday approved Magnum Gas Storage LLC’s proposal to build a high-deliverability, multi-cycle salt cavern natural gas storage facility in western Utah and a major pipeline header system. But it shot down a request by an affiliate to construct, operate and separately own the leaching facilities and ordered Magnum Gas to revise its application to include these jurisdictional facilities in it.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) plans to soon begin finalizing the proposed rules to oversee the multi-trillion dollar derivatives market in the United States, but it doesn’t believe it will be able to complete its work by the July deadline set by Congress.

FERC on Thursday approved Magnum Gas Storage LLC’s proposal to build a high-deliverability, multi-cycle salt cavern natural gas storage facility in western Utah and a major pipeline header system. But it shot down a request by an affiliate to construct, operate and separately own the leaching facilities and ordered Magnum Gas to revise its application to include these jurisdictional facilities.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) plans to soon begin finalizing the proposed rules to oversee the multi-trillion dollar derivatives market in the United States, but it doesn’t believe it will be able to complete its work by the July deadline set by Congress.

Multi-dollar plunges at several Northeast citygates stood out as most points in other regions were either flat or recorded changes up and down of about a nickel or less Thursday. Although leaving temperatures around freezing or not much higher in its wake, a winter storm was starting to move out of the Northeast, and other areas were seeing a variety of cold to cool conditions that failed to create impressive amounts of heating load. Cash quotes also continued to get no backing from the previous day’s 5.5-cent fall by April futures.