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The Department of Transportation’s Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) and the National Association of Pipeline Safety Representatives (NAPSR) will hold a workshop in May to discuss what is considered the most significant rule issued by the federal government regulating natural gas pipeline safety in more than three decades.

California regulators are talking to FERC and Mitsubishi Corp. representatives about trying to exert authority over the proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal proposed for Long Beach harbor in Southern California.

California regulators are talking to FERC and Mitsubishi Corp. representatives about trying to exert authority over the proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal proposed for Long Beach harbor in Southern California.

As the broad energy bill (HR 6) hangs in the balance in the Senate, representatives of the struggling steel, agriculture and paper industries told a House subcommittee last week that they need fast relief from high natural gas prices. Assurances of lower prices 10 or more years down the road, when liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports and Alaska gas are projected to play a bigger role in the U.S. supply mix, don’t help them now, they said.

As the broad energy bill (HR 6) hangs in the balance in the Senate, representatives of the struggling steel, agriculture and paper industries told a House subcommittee that they need fast relief from high natural gas prices. Assurances of lower prices 10 or more years down the road, when liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports and Alaska gas are projected to play a bigger role in the U.S. supply mix, won’t do, they said.

A panel of industry representatives told federal energy regulators at a Denver technical conference Wednesday that natural gas supplies from throughout North America as well as new imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and Alaskan Arctic supplies will be needed in the long term to adequately meet growing demand. There are also plenty of supplies on federal lands if drilling in those geographic areas is ever opened, they said.

A panel of industry representatives told federal energy regulators at a Denver technical conference Wednesday that natural gas supplies from throughout North America as well as new imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and Alaskan Arctic supplies will be needed in the long term future to adequately meet growing demand. There are also plenty of supplies on federal lands if drilling in those geographic areas are ever opened, they said.

The House of Representatives on Friday passed by a wide margin broad-based energy legislation, which one House Republican leader called “the most important energy bill in the last 50 years.” But a dispirited Democratic lawmaker said it was a Republican-crafted bill that was “jammed down the throats” of others in Congress.

The House of Representatives on Friday passed by a wide margin broad-based energy legislation, which one House Republican leader called “the most important energy bill in the last 50 years.” But a dispirited Democratic lawmaker said it was a Republican-crafted bill that was “jammed down the throats” of others in Congress.