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A hearing Tuesday in a federal district court in Mexico ruled in Sempra Energy’s favor but did not end a bitter legal dispute over Sempra’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility along the North Baja California Pacific Coast and a would-be landowner seeking 250 acres adjacent to the site.

A Superior Court judge in Alaska has ruled that the state erred when it terminated the North Slope Point Thomson unit of ExxonMobil Corp., BP plc, Chevron Corp. and ConocoPhillips. The move was said to violate the companies’ constitutional right to due process.

A Superior Court judge in Alaska has ruled that the state erred when it terminated the North Slope Point Thomson unit of ExxonMobil Corp., BP, Chevron and ConocoPhillips. The move was said to violate the companies’ constitutional right to due process.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans has ruled that a group of Mississippi landowners can move forward with a lawsuit in which they claim gas and coal companies contributed to global warming and “added to the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina” by emitting greenhouse gases (GHG).

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans has ruled that a group of Mississippi landowners can move forward with a lawsuit in which they claim gas and coal companies contributed to global warming and “added to the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina” by emitting greenhouse gases (GHG).

FERC Thursday ruled that primary firm (releasing) shippers and asset manager replacement shippers are not “similarly situated” in every respect, and thus pipelines are not automatically required to provide asset manager replacement shippers with the same discounted or negotiated usage or fuel charges that they give releasing shippers.

FERC Thursday ruled that primary firm (releasing) shippers and asset manager replacement shippers are not “similarly situated” in every respect, and thus pipelines are not automatically required to provide asset manager replacement shippers with the same discounted or negotiated usage or fuel charges that they give releasing shippers.

The appellate court in Washington, DC, last Tuesday ruled that Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) can move forward uninterrupted with oil and natural gas sales under the contested five-year (2007-2012) leasing plan in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

The appellate court in Washington, DC, late Tuesday ruled that Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) can move forward uninterrupted with oil and natural gas sales under the contested five-year (2007-2012) leasing plan in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).