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Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry had mixed reactions to Gov. Tom Wolf’s recent executive order to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with some on edge about the policies that could follow and others pointing to the role that the fuel plays in helping to meet climate protection goals.

The Interior Department has ordered its bureaus and offices to base its decisions “on the best available science,” and to make any scientific data, analyses and methodologies used for a rulemaking available to the public.

Pennsylvania regulators have once again halted Mariner East (ME) 1 operations just weeks after a similar suspension was lifted, this time granting an emergency order that lays out a laundry list of requirements that Energy Transfer Partners LP subsidiary Sunoco Pipeline must meet before natural gas liquids (NGL) can resume moving on the system.

In a potential whiplash for the oil and gas industry, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Wednesday night that the Trump administration broke the law when it tried to indefinitely postpone an Obama-era rule governing associated natural gas flaring and venting on public and tribal lands.

Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) operations for Sunoco Pipeline LP’s Mariner East (ME) 2 project may resume across Pennsylvania after the company reached a settlement with environmental groups and agreed to a series of additional safeguards.

FERC’s order Wednesday to suspend all new horizontal directional drilling (HDD) for Energy Transfer Partners LP’s Rover Pipeline has the market anticipating a delay, at least to the project’s Phase 1, an analysis of NGI’s Forward Look prices indicates.

FERC’s order Wednesday to suspend all new horizontal directional drilling (HDD) for Energy Transfer Partners LP’s Rover Pipeline has the market anticipating a delay, at least to the project’s Phase 1, an analysis of NGI’s Forward Look prices indicates.

Energy Transfer Partners LP’s Rover Pipeline has been ordered by FERC to suspend all horizontal directional drilling (HDD) work — except where drilling activity has already begun — pending a third-party review of a recent spill in Ohio. The news led natural gas futures traders on Wednesday to speculate on the possibility of a delay for the project.

In a draft order yet to be finalized, Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) staff argue for the rejection of all proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage options recently presented to regulators.