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The New York State Assembly’s passage of a bill calling for a two-year moratorium on high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) in the state could divide the fragile bipartisan coalition that controls the Senate.

The New York State Assembly’s passage of a bill calling for a two-year moratorium on high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) in the state could divide the fragile bipartisan coalition that controls the Senate.

The Pennsylvania Senate approved a 3% impact fee on oil and natural gas drillers on Tuesday night, moving the Keystone State one step closer to possibly generating revenue from Marcellus Shale development. Meanwhile the state House of Representatives, after three days of tacking on amendments, is poised to pass its own competing bill Thursday (Nov. 17).

Lawmakers in the North Carolina General Assembly are close to giving final passage to a bill that would allow offshore natural gas drilling, create a compact with neighboring states and set up an state advisory board on energy matters.

Lawmakers in the North Carolina General Assembly are reportedly close to giving final passage to a bill that would allow offshore natural gas drilling, create a compact with neighboring states and set up an state advisory board on energy matters.

Cash traders appeared to have no concern about Tropical Storm Richard possibly surviving an overland passage and emerging into the southern Gulf of Mexico this week. What mattered more to them was a persistent lack of substantive weather-based demand (either heating or cooling); storage inventories poised to hit another all-time high level; and the previous day’s screen plunge. The physical market recorded large double-digit declines across the board Friday.

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has “complicated” the passage of an energy bill because one of its “central features” was to be offshore access, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. CEO Jim Hackett said Tuesday.

German and American government officials viewed as positive the House passage of a health care bill, speaking Monday in Berlin at the opening of the second German American Energy Conference. In keeping with the meeting’s theme of seeking expanded markets for renewables and energy efficiency, officials said they see signs of the health care logjam being freed as conducive to having new national U.S. energy legislation later this year.

German and American government officials viewed as positive the House passage of a health care bill, speaking Monday in Berlin at the opening of the second German American Energy Conference. In keeping with the meeting’s theme of seeking expanded markets for renewables and energy efficiency, officials said they see signs of the health care logjam being freed as conducive to having new national U.S. energy legislation later this year.