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The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) has again been ordered to temporarily stop work on a small stretch of the project in southern West Virginia so that a circuit court judge may review a pending appeal filed by landowners and environmental organizations.  

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday lifted a stay of Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC’s (MVP) water crossing permit in West Virginia, providing further good news for sponsors recently beset by unfavorable decisions handed down by the court.

A federal appeals court Thursday rejected a request by the oil and gas industry and allies to reconsider a court panel’s decision last month to lift a stay of Obama-era rules governing new sources of methane emissions.

Days after a federal appeals court removed a stay over parts of proposed rules governing new sources of methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, the U.S. Environmental Protection (EPA) took the unusual step of asking the court to recall its mandate, thereby giving the agency more time to weigh its options.

Thirteen days after ordering a 90-day stay over parts of proposed rules governing new sources of methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Tuesday that it is considering extending the stay by two years.

In an unusual move, and a sign that the Obama administration’s proposed Clean Power Plan (CPP) could be in trouble, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked implementation of the rule until all legal challenges have been resolved.

A stay precipitated by the Delaware Riverkeeper Network (DRN) that had delayed preliminary work on Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC’s (Transco) proposed Leidy Southeast expansion has been dissolved by a panel of judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

As industry and energy regulators again were forced to stay away from their offices in Calgary’s flooded downtown a state of emergency still prevailed Monday in the city and much of southern Alberta, according to government and industry sources.

The continuing shale gas boom is having a “massive impact” on the U.S. energy market, particularly a revival for various smart grid developments, according to a report released by IMS Research, a unit of the global research/consulting firm IHS.