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The Pittsburgh City Council voted 6-3 on Monday to add a referendum to the fall ballot that, if approved by voters, would amend the city charter with a ban on all commercial natural gas extraction inside the city limits.

From commuter buses to cars for commuters, from garbage trucks to power trucks, and from state-owned to city-owned vehicles, developments surrounding the propagation of natural gas vehicles (NGV) made headlines across the country in recent days.

From commuter buses to cars for commuters, from garbage trucks to power trucks, and from state-owned to city-owned vehicles, developments surrounding the propagation of natural gas vehicles (NGV) made headlines across the country in recent days.

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeks answers, Chesapeake Energy Corp. said the blowout of one of its Marcellus Shale wells in northeast Pennsylvania is now under control.

Despite the pomp surrounding Wednesday’s introduction of the New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act (NAT GAS Act) to Congress, an investment bank warns the bill faces “significant” hurdles to passage.

Several state senators introduced legislation last week designed to help spur investment in the natural gas industry.

Major joint ventures (JV) in North American unconventional resource plays were a driving force in pushing worldwide merger and acquisition (M&A) activity to a record high in 2010, preliminary data indicate.

The administration of Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Tom Corbett, who is scheduled to be inaugurated in Harrisburg Jan. 18, should be a breath of fresh air for the natural gas industry, which saw outgoing Gov. Ed Rendell’s administration put state forest land off limits to drillers and push for a significant severance tax of 5% on drilling, according to Marcellus Shale Coalition President Kathryn Klaber.

Sioux Falls, SD-based NorthWestern Corp., an energy holding company with gas and electric utilities in Montana and surrounding states, is looking to buy more natural gas reserves during the coming decade, CEO Bob Rowe told financial analysts on a second quarter earnings conference.