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An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official told a Senate panel earlier this week that the agency is committed to cooperating with states to oversee the practice of hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

In the hot seat since the Sept. 9 rupture of one of its natural gas transmission pipelines, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) sent a nine-member engineering team to the three-day National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearings, which began Tuesday in Washington, DC.

The West Virginia Legislature’s House Judiciary Committee is expected to vote Thursday on a bill that would make several changes to the state’s regulation of Marcellus Shale drilling, including instituting dramatic increases to horizontal permitting fees to fund a larger staff at the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

U.S. natural gas pipeline capacity traded in the first nine months of 2010 jumped by 143% year/year to more than 8.3 Bcf/d, according to Capacity Center, which tracks activity on every domestic interstate pipeline.

Eight out of nine major national and regional hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) service providers have agreed to submit “timely and complete information” to help the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conduct its study on hydrofracking and its impact on drinking water quality, the EPA said last week. Halliburton, after failing to comply with the agency’s voluntary requests for information, has been subpoenaed.

U.S. natural gas pipeline capacity traded in the first nine months of 2010 jumped by 143% year/year to more than 8.3 Bcf/d, according to Capacity Center, which tracks activity on every domestic interstate pipeline.

Eight out of nine major national and regional hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) service providers have agreed to submit “timely and complete information” to help the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conduct its study on hydrofracking and its impact on drinking water quality, the EPA said Tuesday. Halliburton, after failing to comply with the agency’s voluntary requests for information, has been subpoenaed.

Eight out of nine major national and regional hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) service providers have agreed to submit “timely and complete information” to help the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conduct its study on hydrofracking and its impact on drinking water quality, the EPA said Tuesday. Halliburton, after failing to comply with the agency’s voluntary requests for information, has been subpoenaed.

The Stripper Well Consortium (SWC), which has transferred technology developed for major energy companies to small, independent oil and gas operators for nine years, was extended to 2015 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).