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Energy savings of at least 10% in January and February next year can earn Pacific Gas and Electric Co. natural gas utility customers 20% discount on their subsequent monthly bills under a program authorized Thursday by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). The “10/20 Program” applies to all PG&E gas customers — residential, business, agricultural and government entities.

Showing that significant screen weakness on the previous day is not an automatic harbinger of subsequent softness in cash numbers, prices ranged from flat to as much as 65 cents higher at nearly all points Tuesday despite a natural gas futures loss of nearly a quarter on Monday. A few Gulf Coast points softened by as much as a dime in exceptions to the overall market strength.

In the latest chapter of a hotly contested environmental issue, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) unveiled the final version of an interim national strategy outlining the steps it will take to protect and restore the sage grouse habitat on America’s public lands.

In the latest chapter of a hotly contested environmental issue, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) unveiled the final version of an interim national strategy outlining the steps it will take to protect and restore the sage grouse habitat on America’s public lands.

In the latest chapter of a hotly contested environmental issue, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) unveiled the final version of an interim national strategy outlining the steps it will take to protect and restore the sage grouse habitat on America’s public lands.

The rupture and subsequent explosion on TransCanada PipeLines’ mainline system in Canada in early 2002 was due to a host of factors that came together in a near “perfect storm,” causing “stress corrosion cracking to initiate and grow to failure,” according to a report by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) on the accident.

The rupture and subsequent explosion on TransCanada PipeLines’ mainline system in Canada in early 2002 was due to a host of factors that came together in a near “perfect storm,” causing “stress corrosion cracking to initiate and grow to failure,” according to a report by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) on the accident.

Unlike the sharp drop and subsequent recovery of natural gas storage stocks in the winter of 2000-2001, today’s low storage levels may be a continuing phenomenon, analyst Stephen Smith said, indicating “embedded tightness” in the system.

Anxious Houston-based employees Friday were waiting for formal news that their employer, Enron Corp., had filed for bankruptcy, expected to be the largest in U.S. history, and waited to learn whether layoffs will begin in the United States as they have in Europe. Across the country, others kept an eye on whether Enron would file a lawsuit against its short-term merger partner Dynegy Corp. for backing out of the transaction last week. Meanwhile, companies that had once dealt with the former trend-setting energy trader began tallying their own expected losses should Enron go under, and in Washington, DC, legislators announced they would begin investigating exactly who knew what when.