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A Florida Senate committee last Thursday unanimously approved a measure that seeks voter approval in 2008 of a constitutional amendment to prohibit oil and natural gas drilling within 250 miles of Florida’s coastline.

The House Judiciary Committee last Wednesday approved by voice vote a bill that would prohibit states from assessing taxes on interstate natural gas pipelines at a higher rate than those levied on in-state industrial and commercial facilities.

The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved by voice vote a bill that would prohibit states from assessing taxes on interstate natural gas pipelines at a higher rate than those levied on in-state industrial and commercial facilities.

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday is expected to mark up a $26 billion spending bill for fiscal year 2007 that would prohibit Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Agriculture Department’s U.S. Forest Service from issuing new oil and natural gas leases on federal land along the Rocky Mountain Front.

A House Judiciary subcommittee on Thursday approved by voice vote a bill that would prohibit states from assessing higher taxes on interstate natural gas pipelines than on in-state industrial and commercial facilities.

With FERC continuing its probe into whether energy companies active in western markets utilized dubious trading strategies like those described in recently released Enron Corp. memos, FERC Commissioner William Massey on Thursday said that he wants to make sure that whatever standard electricity market design the Commission ultimately adopts will ensure that strategies like those described in the memos can’t take place.

The Senate last week voted in favor of an amendment that would prohibit oil and natural gas drilling or mining on federal lands designated as national monuments, mirroring action taken by the Republican-led House last month.

The Senate yesterday voted in favor of an amendment that would prohibit oil and natural gas drilling or mining on federal lands designated as national monuments, mirroring action taken by the Republican-led House last month.