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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has refused to reconsider its decision to throw out a ban on oil and natural gas drilling in the Allegheny National Forest. Judge Jane Richards Roth denied a petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc that was requested by the Sierra Club, the Allegheny Defense Project (ADF) and Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, which are appellants in the case Minard Run Oil Company v. United States Forest Service et al. (Case No. 1-09-CV-125, Appeals Docket No. 10-2332). Last September the appeals court’s three-judge panel ruled that the U.S. Forest Service could not refuse to give operators permission to drill in the forest while an environmental impact study was being conducted (see NGI, Sept. 26, 2011).

A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider its decision to throw out a ban on oil and natural gas drilling in the Allegheny National Forest.

A couple from Susquehanna County, PA, at the center of a controversial mineral rights case wants the state’s Supreme Court to throw out a lower court’s ruling and end the anxiety shared by energy companies and landowners alike over uncertain ownership rights in the Marcellus Shale.

A couple from Susquehanna County, PA, at the center of a controversial mineral rights case wants the state’s Supreme Court to throw out a lower court’s ruling and end the anxiety shared by energy companies and landowners alike over uncertain ownership rights in the Marcellus Shale.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who previously served as Colorado’s attorney general and U.S. senator, sidestepped inquiries Wednesday about whether he might throw his hat in the ring as a Democratic candidate for governor.

Former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling on Friday asked the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to throw out all of his 19 convictions.

While refusing to throw in the towel on competition in U.S. electricity markets, the Electricity Consumers Resource Council (ELCON) last Monday asserted that today’s power markets are plagued by a series of problems — including an inadequate transmission grid and icy relations between federal and state regulators — that must be fixed if restructuring is to successfully advance in the country.

The campaign to throw construction of the Canadian leg in the Alaska gas pipeline project open to competition reached the top of the Canadian government, where a senior committee of the Liberal cabinet Thursday opened its doors to Enbridge Inc.

The campaign to throw construction of the Canadian leg in the Alaska gas pipeline project open to competition reached the top of the Canadian government, where a senior committee of the Liberal cabinet Thursday opened its doors to Enbridge Inc.