Nationally

Cash prices Wednesday fell an average of 15 cents nationally and futures weren’t far behind. Traders see the warm weather continuing with some electing to index less gas than usual, anticipating they can make up the difference with favorable purchases of spot gas.

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead wrote the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lisa Jackson, on Monday complaining that his state has yet to get a full response from EPA to questions it raised about the federal agency’s two test wells near Pavillion, WY.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking nominations of nationally and/or internationally recognized scientists or engineers to conduct a “thorough and unbiased review” of a draft agency report released in December, which found that groundwater in Pavillion, WY, may be polluted by natural gas drilling and well stimulation practices (including hydraulic fracturing).

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking nominations of nationally and/or internationally recognized scientists or engineers to conduct a “thorough and unbiased review” of a controversial draft report released in December, which found that groundwater in Pavillion, WY, may be polluted by natural gas drilling and well stimulation practices (including hydraulic fracturing).

“Persistent, scorching heat” in the eastern and central United States made last month the fourth warmest July on record nationally and exacerbated drought conditions in the South, according to scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center.

“Persistent, scorching heat” in the eastern and central United States made last month the fourth warmest July on record nationally and exacerbated drought conditions in the South, according to scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center.

Record keeping and the basis for operating pressures in large natural gas transmission pipelines in some instances are inadequate and more attention is needed nationally; that is one of the lessons that California energy regulatory officials cited Thursday from the fatal September pipeline rupture in San Bruno, CA. They expressed sensitivity to how effective they have been in their oversight role, and predicted implications for regulators and pipelines throughout the nation.

Record keeping and the basis for operating pressures in large natural gas transmission pipelines in some instances are inadequate and more attention is needed nationally; that is one of the lessons that California energy regulatory officials cited Thursday from the fatal September pipeline rupture in San Bruno, CA.

Seal Beach, CA-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has made two deals to expand its market reach nationally, entering a securities purchase agreement to acquire fueling technology provider Wyoming Northstar Inc. for $10.9 million in cash, and through a subsidiary inking an agreement with a New Jersey-based alternative fuel vehicle manufacturer, Clean Vehicle Solutions LLC, to provide compressed natural gas (CNG) systems for the small vehicle makers’ products.