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In response to Japan’s earthquake/tsunami-triggered nuclear power plant crisis, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Wednesday launched a two-pronged review of the safety of U.S. nuclear plants.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Thursday announced a two-pronged approach to responding to last September’s rupture of a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) natural gas transmission pipeline in San Bruno, CA. One will look at whether the utility’s past handling of its pipeline systems warrants sanctions and fines.

The California Public Utilities Commission Thursday announced a two-pronged approach to responding to last September’s rupture of a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) natural gas transmission pipeline in San Bruno, CA. One will look at whether the utility’s past handling of its pipeline systems warrants sanctions and fines.

The Department of Interior and Congress should pursue a two-pronged strategy to recover royalties from producers that hold the 1998-1999 deepwater oil and natural gas leases that lack critical price thresholds, according to a report issued by an Interior-commissioned panel.

The Department of Interior and Congress should pursue a two-pronged strategy to recover royalties from producers who hold the 1998-1999 deepwater oil and natural gas leases that lack critical price thresholds, said a report issued by an Interior-commissioned panel Monday.

Instead of trying to tackle head-on all the issues before it inits review of the short-term and long-term transportation markets,Commissioner Linda Breathitt has proposed that FERC first issue alimited final rule addressing the less-controversial issues andsave the more complex items for later. “From what I’ve read in thecomments [filed at FERC], the approach I am proposing appears to beone that many in the market could support,” she said in a recentspeech to the American Gas Association Legal Forum in La Jolla, CA.