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The U.S. Supreme Court last Tuesday said it would hear two cases in which a Nevada utility and Pacific Northwest utility district seek to terminate above-market power contracts that were signed during the western energy market meltdown in 2000-2001.

FERC Thursday issued proposed rules that seek to revise existing agency regulations to improve the transparency of transportation and sale of wholesale natural gas in the United States.

FERC last Thursday finalized a series of reforms to its market-based rate program that seek to shield consumers from the exercise of market power by electric power sellers.

FERC last Thursday issued proposed rules that seek to revise existing agency regulations to improve the transparency of transportation and sale of wholesale natural gas in the United States.

Seminole Energy Services LLC last week announced that it plans to seek regulatory approval to build a 150-mile natural gas pipeline to serve the growing ethanol market in Central Nebraska.

Seminole Energy Services LLC has announced that it plans to seek regulatory approval to build a 150-mile natural gas pipeline to serve the growing ethanol market in Central Nebraska.

At the request of state utility regulators, the Washington state’s attorney general will seek a stiff penalty against a Puget Sound-area construction company that has repeatedly hit and damaged underground utility wires and pipelines.

With the public outcry over rising power costs, Dominion Virginia Power believes the time is right for it to seek major changes to the regulatory structure of the power business in Virginia.

The U.S. natural gas market continues to be the “nation’s silent energy crisis,” but The Dow Chemical Co. has been “anything but silent…and is pounding the pavement” to seek solutions to dwindling domestic supply and increasing demand, John Dearborn, Dow’s vice president of energy, said last week.