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Delaware’s environmental agency on Thursday rejected BP’s application to build an off-loading pier to serve a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal along the Delaware River in Logan Township, NJ.

Just before year-end, a California state appeals court denied Sempra Energy’s latest pleading, sending a $24 billion anti-trust class action lawsuit to trial in 2005, the plaintiffs’ attorneys in the case announced Dec. 27. The plaintiffs anticipate a trial date will be scheduled to begin this summer regarding their charges of “cartel-like behavior” and collusion in the wholesale natural gas markets.

A California state appeals court denied Sempra Energy’s latest pleading last week, sending a $24 billion anti-trust class action lawsuit to trial next year, the plaintiffs’ attorneys in the case announced Monday. The plaintiffs anticipate a trial date will be scheduled to begin next summer regarding their charges of “cartel-like behavior” and collusion in the wholesale natural gas markets.

In a surprising decision Thursday, FERC rejected a bid by Gas Technology Institute (GTI), the successor to the Gas Research Institute (GRI), for a continued mandatory surcharge on natural gas volumes transported on interstate pipelines to fund new gas research, development and demonstration (RD&D) programs.

In a surprising decision last Thursday, FERC rejected a bid by Gas Technology Institute (GTI), the successor to the Gas Research Institute (GRI), for a continued mandatory surcharge on natural gas volumes transported on interstate pipelines to fund new gas research, development and demonstration (RD&D) programs.

In a surprising decision Thursday, FERC rejected a bid by Gas Technology Institute (GTI), the successor to the Gas Research Institute (GRI), for a continued mandatory surcharge on natural gas volumes transported on interstate pipelines to fund new gas research, development and demonstration (RD&D) programs.

A federal court in Washington, DC, last Wednesday rejected a challenge by several environmental groups of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision authorizing a Denver producer to conduct seismic gas exploration activity on the West Tavatus Plateau in eastern Utah.

A federal court in Washington, DC, on Wednesday rejected a challenge by several environmental groups of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision authorizing a Denver producer to conduct seismic gas exploration activity on the West Tavatus Plateau in eastern Utah.

FERC has rejected ANR Pipeline’s proposed tariff revisions that sought to establish a low hydrocarbon dewpoint (HDP) quality specification and merchantability standard for natural gas accepted into its system.