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A bipartisan group of senators last week called on the Bush administration to release the final $100 million in emergency funding for Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) that helps needy families pay their utility bills. They also recommended that the annual LIHEAP budget be expanded.

A bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday called on the Bush administration to release the final $100 million in emergency funding for Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) that helps needy families pay their utility bills. They also recommended that the annual LIHEAP budget be expanded.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is expecting its new monthly natural gas production survey, which will begin in January with the first release of data at the end of April, to fill a substantial need in the gas market, potentially rivaling its weekly gas storage report in importance, according to John Wood, director of reserves and production in the EIA’s Dallas office.

Passing without much fanfare, the release of the Energy Information Administration’s natural gas storage report was no match for changing forecasts for Hurricane Ivan’s path. The National Hurricane Center has sharply altered its path projections for the category four hurricane at least three times.

FERC closed out the last week in July before its August hiatus with the release late Friday of a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) that would allow construction of the controversial 4.4 Bcf capacity Weaver’s Cove LNG receiving terminal near Fall River, MA, conditioned on certain environmental mitigation and safety requirements (CP04-36).

FERC closed out the last week in July before its August hiatus with the release late Friday of a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) that would allow construction of the controversial 4.4 Bcf capacity Weaver’s Cove LNG receiving terminal near Fall River, MA, conditioned on certain environmental mitigation and safety requirements (CP04-36).

A natural gas industry study scheduled for release in mid-July says that a two-year delay in building gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals will cost U.S. gas consumers more than $200 billion by 2020.

A natural gas industry study destined for release in mid-July says that a two-year delay in building gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals will cost U.S. gas consumers more than $200 billion by 2020.

In a much anticipated ruling, the Supreme Court last Thursday refused to order Vice President Dick Cheney to turn over records and documents of the energy task force that crafted the national energy policy in 2001, but instead it punted the controversial case back to a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, for further consideration.