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The National Park Service (NPS) is proposing an end to regulatory provisions that exempt about 60% of oil and natural gas operations on national park land from oversight by the agency.

Canada’s new Liberal regime — elected Monday, ending 10 years of Conservative rule — takes office with its options wide open for responding to developments in natural gas, oil, electricity, pipelines and transmission systems.

Canada’s new Liberal regime — elected Monday, ending 10 years of Conservative rule — takes office with its options wide open for responding to developments in natural gas, oil, electricity, pipelines and transmission systems.

The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) has submitted a 16-page summary of comments to FERC expressing “considerable concerns” about potential environmental and other impacts from the proposed Oregon LNG project seeking to export gas from a spot at the mouth of the Columbia River. Sources tied to the backers of the project dismissed the DOI concerns.

In a move lawmakers hope will streamline the pipeline permitting process and provide additional natural gas to the East Coast, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed a bill Thursday granting the secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI) the power to negotiate rights-of-way for gas pipelines through national park lands.

In a move lawmakers hope will streamline the pipeline permitting process and provide additional natural gas to the East Coast, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed a bill Thursday granting the secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI) the power to negotiate rights-of-way for gas pipelines through national park lands.

A bill authorizing construction of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline took another step toward passage in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday after lawmakers successfully used a parliamentary procedure to kick off debate over the bill.

A simmering dispute boiled over Thursday into a formal duel over a Canadian constitutional law question before the National Energy Board (NEB): Can municipal governments block national and international pipeline projects?

National Grid is beginning the design and construction phase of a purification system to convert biogas from New York City’s Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant into renewable natural gas for residential and commercial use.