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In an unusual twist, a cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) that originated in Russia is being unloaded from a French ship in the Boston area, even as the Trump administration tightens sanctions against Russia for its actions in neighboring Ukraine.

Four days before he is scheduled to give the first State of the Union (SOTU) address of his presidency, President Trump on Friday bragged about his administration enacting comprehensive tax reform and paring down government regulations to an international audience, but he made scant comments regarding U.S. oil and gas abundance.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it anticipated that the U.S. Supreme Court would ultimately rule that the nation’s district courts should decide lawsuits filed against an Obama-era rule over which waterbodies deserve protection under the Clean Water Act.

The Trump administration slapped a four-year tariff on imported solar cells and modules on Monday, a move that could hamper solar’s competitiveness against cheap natural gas while also giving a boost to the coal industry, and which analysts say could signal that the White House is stepping back from more aggressive trade policies.

Kinder Morgan Inc.’s (KMI) natural gas business outperformed in the final three months of 2017, driven mostly by growth in transportation volumes, as the midstream giant readies expansions for its oil and gas systems across North America.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is pushing back against efforts in federal district court to derail the Trump administration’s decision to postpone the compliance dates for rules governing associated natural gas flaring and venting on public and tribal lands, calling the rules suspension “a commonsense, time-limited solution to a practical problem.”

U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO Thomas Donohue said the scrapping of Obama-era energy regulations, coupled with last month’s comprehensive tax reform, will help kick-start economic growth into 2018, but warned that the Trump administration must also make modernizing the nation’s infrastructure a priority to keep the economy growing.

The head of the American Petroleum Institute (API) on Tuesday diverged from the White House on theNorth American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), arguing that if its benefits cannot be salvaged by modernizing the accord it should be left in place as it is.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) asked a federal district court in San Francisco to allow it to weigh in on a pair of lawsuits filed last month regarding the Trump administration’s decision to postpone the compliance dates for rules governing associated natural gas flaring and venting on public and tribal lands.