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The Pennsylvania House Environmental and Energy Resources Committee has approved a resolution to prevent a package of environmental regulations for the oil and natural gas industry from being implemented.

The Pennsylvania House Environmental and Energy Resources Committee has approved a resolution to prevent a package of environmental regulations for the oil and natural gas industry from being implemented.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) proposed rules for natural gas flaring and venting on public lands drew skepticism and concern from various state, tribal and industry representatives Thursday during testimony at a U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) proposed rules for natural gas flaring and venting on public lands drew skepticism and concern from various state, tribal and industry representatives Thursday during testimony at a U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC.

North Dakota’s Industrial Commission (IC) is in the midst of a year-long process to review and update its rules for oil and natural gas permitting, including seeking to better define “interested parties” who are given legal standing in that process.

A coalition of consumer and environmental advocacy groups filed a petition Monday calling on FERC to establish an office of public participation, arguing that the public’s interests are currently underrepresented in the Commission’s regulatory process.

Legal challenges against Sunoco Logistics Partners LP’s proposed Mariner East (ME) pipelines are mounting, as Pennsylvania landowners and an environmental advocacy group are fighting against a subsidiary’s efforts to condemn property for the project’s path. The court battles could combine with the commodities downturn to delay the project further.

The national campaign to end oil/natural gas lease sales on federally managed public lands focused on the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) office in Lakewood, CO, on Thursday. Demonstrators were stationed outside the office for part of the morning in spring-like weather.

A state lawmaker in Oklahoma plans to hold a public forum Friday that will include comments from geologists on ongoing seismic activity in the state, as regulators prepare a response to two large earthquakes that struck last week.