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During the last days of the legislative session, Alaska lawmakers passed one bill intended to revive the state’s declining oil production by cutting taxes, and another to advance development of an in-state pipeline that would commercialize North Slope natural gas reserves for use by Alaskans.

During the last days of the legislative session, Alaska lawmakers passed one bill intended to revive the state’s declining oil production by cutting taxes, and another to advance development of an in-state pipeline that would commercialize North Slope natural gas reserves for use by Alaskans.

If it lives up to its potential, the Utica Shale could revive the manufacturing sector in Ohio, industry leaders told an audience in Columbus last month.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett signed a state budget last Thursday that did not include a tax or fee on Marcellus Shale development, but lawmakers expect to revive the issue this fall.

Icy conditions building from the Midcontinent and Texas through the Southeast and heavy snowfalls predicted in the Northeast and Midwest failed to revive most of the cash market Thursday. Only Northeast citygates, where spikes were most often in triple digits, got a significant boost from the new blast of arctic cold enveloping most of North America.

Icy conditions building from the Midcontinent and Texas through the Southeast and heavy snowfalls predicted in the Northeast and Midwest failed to revive most of the cash market Thursday. Only Northeast citygates, where spikes were most often in triple digits, got a significant boost from the new blast of arctic cold enveloping most of North America.

Efforts to revive an inquiry into over-recovery of fuel costs by interstate natural gas pipelines, which FERC scrapped in late 2008 to the dismay of shippers, could resurface this year depending on a change in the makeup of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under the Obama administration.

Efforts to revive an inquiry into over-recovery of fuel costs by interstate natural gas pipelines, which FERC scrapped in late 2008 to the dismay of shippers, could resurface this year depending on a change in the makeup of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under the Obama administration.

To revive his stagnant reform agenda, Mexican President Vicente Fox has reshuffled his Cabinet and replaced Energy Minister Ernesto Martens with Felipe Calderon, a former leader of the ruling National Action Party, or PAN, which now controls Congress.