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A panel of energy and technology executives Tuesday reiterated the need for a national energy policy, saying it would help both traditional energy sources, such as natural gas, and various renewables, such as wind energy, which is experiencing a marked slowdown in its U.S. growth.

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).

With natural gas now front and center on President Obama’s energy agenda (see Shale Daily, March 31), his administration has called for a broad-based panel to be formed to examine potential risks associated with hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

The Arkansas Public Policy Panel (APPP) issued a report last week urging state lawmakers to strengthen regulation of oil and gas development in the Fayetteville Shale and encouraged them to use moratoria as needed.

The Arkansas Public Policy Panel (APPP) released a report last week outlining what it perceives are the potential risks over natural gas development in the Fayetteville Shale play, and listing recommendations to minimize those risks.

On the same day an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) panel heard Pennsylvania residents describe their worries about hydraulic fracturing in the state’s portion of the Marcellus Shale, a state lawmaker spoke out against another item near and dear to the hearts of the state’s gas producers: forced pooling.

On the same day an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) panel heard Pennsylvania residents describe their worries about hydraulic fracturing in the state’s portion of the Marcellus Shale, a state lawmaker spoke out against another item near and dear to the hearts of the state’s gas producers: forced pooling.

Two Republicans on a House panel have called on the Interior Department’s Acting Inspector General Mary Kendall to open an investigation into allegations that the Obama administration altered peer-reviewed recommendations by experts in a report to justify the 60-day moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Wholesale natural gas prices in the Pacific Northwest will remain unchanged or slightly lower this winter, a panel of industry representatives told the Oregon Public Utility Commission (PUC) last Tuesday during the PUC’s annual Gas Price Outlook meeting in the state capital at Salem, OR.