Efforts that began last year to lease state-owned land on the Ohio River and elsewhere in West Virginia have practically stalled with the sharp decline in oil and natural gas prices, compounding the downturn’s impact on state revenues as severance tax collections have fallen this year, too.
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North Dakota Begins Regulating Gathering Pipelines
From the mandate of state legislation (SB 1358) passed this year and two years earlier, North Dakota’s oil/natural gas regulators in the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) have built a new unit for the first time to oversee the construction, operation and maintenance of the state’s expanding gathering pipeline systems.
December 17, 2015
West Virginia Revenue Remains Squeezed On Low Oil/Gas Prices
West Virginia’s severance tax collections continued to plummet in November, driven primarily by low oil and natural gas prices, which have also hurt personal income tax collections and helped to widen a projected budget deficit for fiscal year 2016.
December 14, 2015
Los Angeles Sues SoCalGas Over Storage Well Leak
The Los Angeles city attorney on Monday filed a lawsuit against Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) for its handling of a seven-week-old underground natural gas storage well leak that has no end in sight (see Daily GPI,Dec. 3).
December 8, 2015
Shale Era Still Has Pennsylvania DEP Playing Defense, Pushing Change
After nearly a year under the direction of a new administration, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) job hasn’t gotten any easier.
December 4, 2015
Ohio Task Force Finds Oil/Gas Severance Tax Increase Should Be Delayed
An Ohio legislative task force, charged with exploring the possibility of increasing the state’s severance tax on unconventional oil and natural gas production, issued a 56-page report on Thursday that failed to recommend a new rate and instead cautioned that any hikes should be slowly phased in.
October 23, 2015
Pennsylvania DEP Aims For More Oil/Gas Oversight in Impoverished Communities
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is planning to revive its long dormant Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ), a program aimed at better protecting low income areas from industrial development such as oil and gas drilling.
October 19, 2015
Federal Regulators Seen More Threatening Than Low Oil/Gas Prices in Western States
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continue to draw scrutiny from western state governors as a number of states consider legal action against some of the agencies’ recent measures.
October 15, 2015
California Officials Acknowledge Lax Oil, Gas Oversight, Submit Overhaul Plan
Acknowledging insufficient oversight of the oil and natural gas industry in the past, California energy officials on Thursday released a “renewal plan” for regulatory efforts along with a state legislative-mandated report (SB 855) detailing shortcomings of past efforts, which are concentrated in the Department of Conservation (DOC).
October 9, 2015
Mariner East Wins One Court Battle, But More Likely
A Pennsylvania court has ruled against a group of landowners in the southeast part of the state that argued Sunoco Logistics Partners LP’s Mariner East 2 pipeline is an interstate system that does not qualify for eminent domain under state law.
October 6, 2015
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