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Government agency said it also expects Americans to spend more this winter to heat their homes with natural gas.

Two coal-fired power plants owned by FirstEnergy in southwestern Pennsylvania are scheduled to be closed on Wednesday.

Production from the eastern United States, including the powerhouse Marcellus Shale, will help make the country the world’s top producer of natural gas this year, the Energy Information Administration said.

Production from the eastern United States, including the powerhouse Marcellus Shale, will help make the country the world’s top producer of natural gas this year, ahead of Saudi Arabia, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Friday.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) launched an investigation Thursday into the competitiveness of the state’s retail natural gas market to determine what steps state regulators should take in order to make improvements.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has added natural gas and petroleum time-series data to its application programming interface (API), a tool the agency said “is ideal for software developers working in government, research, or the energy sector who are looking to design applications for the web or for mobile and tablet devices.” The API is currently released as a beta product.

Both oil and natural gas production in the Lone Star state climbed during June from year-ago levels, and the top producing counties remained the familiar Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale region names, according to Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) data.

Both oil and natural gas production in the Lone Star state climbed during June from year-ago levels, and the top producing counties remained the familiar Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale region names, according to Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) data.

Cheap natural gas might not be the biggest nail in the coffin of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station in Vernon, VT, but it’s in there, Entergy Corp. said in announcing the shuttering of the plant, mainly due to low power prices in a poorly designed wholesale power market.