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Houston-based Sanchez Energy Corp. has again cut its capital spending plan for this year due to depressed commodity prices. The original plan to spend $1.15 billion has now been cut to $600-650 million with the latest reduction. Previous guidance was for $875 million.

Wyoming on Monday asked the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to deny challenges from environmental groups to its federally approved plan for controlling nitrogen oxides (NOx), or haze.

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead on Thursday joined national and regional U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officials in signing off on a long-term BLM resource management plan that incorporates a state plan for protecting the greater sage grouse.

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead on Thursday unveiled a state plan to establish pipeline corridors through federal lands. An application by the state has been submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to establish 1,150 miles of pipeline corridors.

The lesser prairie-chicken has been listed as "threatened" by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the agency said Thursday. The declaration comes with a rule intended to limit the impact of the listing on landowners and businesses, such as those in the oil and gas industry.

The state of Alaska has filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's (USFWS) refusal to consider the state's exploration plan for the coastal plain, or 1002 Area, of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

The Council of the District of Columbia has approved a resolution expressing “the sense of the Council that the United States Forest Service should prohibit horizontal hydraulic fracturing [fracking] in the George Washington National Forest [GWNF] to protect regional water quality and supply.”

A pair of pipeline projects designed to carry natural gas from the Marcellus Shale to markets in the Northeast would have adverse environmental impacts that could be mitigated, FERC said Wednesday.

A 28-year-old trade alliance is breaking up over TransCanada Corp.’s program for increasing imports of natural gas from the United States into Ontario and Quebec by raising capacity on eastern legs of its Mainline.