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For lack of state regulatory approval in Oregon, one of three states in which it operates, Spokane, WA-based Avista Corp. has abandoned long-standing plans to establish a holding company. The Avista board of directors last Thursday decided to throw in the towel, despite receiving nearly all of the needed state and federal approvals.

Long-standing plans to site a $159 million liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage plant to help meet gas peak loads have hit another bump, driving back the projected start date for the Washington Gas Light Co. distribution utility’s proposed facility to the winter of 2013-14, said incoming CEO Terry McCallister.

Long-standing plans to site a $159 million liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage plant to help meet gas peak loads have hit another bump, driving back the projected start date for the Washington Gas Light Co. distribution utility’s proposed facility to the winter of 2013-14, said incoming CEO Terry McCallister.

Alleging that long-standing endangered species protections are being “gutted,” California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown last Monday filed a federal lawsuit seeking to stop new rules by the Departments of Interior and Commerce that were made final Dec. 16 and would allegedly eliminate the mandate for scientific review of federal agency decisions that might affect endangered species.

Alleging that long-standing endangered species protections are being “gutted,” California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to stop new rules by the Departments of Interior and Commerce that were made final Dec. 16 and would allegedly eliminate the mandate for scientific review of federal agency decisions that might affect endangered species.

Excelerate Energy’s niche in the natural gas supply chain puts it in good standing as it attempts to carve out a place in the emerging world of floating natural gas liquefaction, or floating LNG (FLNG), Anthony Schiller, Excelerate director of upstream development, told NGI.

Excelerate Energy’s niche in the natural gas supply chain puts it in good standing as it attempts to carve out a place in the emerging world of floating natural gas liquefaction, or floating LNG (FLNG), Anthony Schiller, Excelerate director of upstream development, told NGI.

Only one regulatory hurdle remains standing in the way of the proposed merger of National Grid and KeySpan Corp. following the approval of the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission (PUC), officials from the two companies said last Monday.

The congressional moratorium on oil and natural gas drilling off the East and West Coasts will remain in effect for at least another year. All efforts in the House last week to overturn the 25-year-old ban were defeated. But some headway was made in the Senate, where funding was approved to carry out an inventory of oil and natural gas resources in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.