Upheld

The West Virginia Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that would allow Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. to develop oil and natural gas wells in a state park.

The West Virginia Supreme Court last week upheld a lower court’s ruling that would allow Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. to develop oil and natural gas wells in a state park.

A federal court of appeals in Washington, DC, has upheld a FERC ruling that permanently lifted the price ceilings on short-term capacity releases of one year or less by shippers but maintained rate ceilings on capacity sales by pipelines (see NGI, June 23, 2008).

A federal court of appeals in Washington, DC, Friday upheld a FERC ruling that permanently lifted the price ceilings on short-term capacity releases of one year or less by shippers but maintained rate ceilings on capacity sales by pipelines (see Daily GPI, June 20, 2008).

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last Thursday upheld its December 2009 endangerment determination that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions pose a danger to the public’s health and welfare. The finding provided the legal trigger for the agency to regulate emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) (see NGI, Dec.14, 2009).

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Thursday upheld its December 2009 endangerment finding, which held that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions pose a danger to the public’s health and welfare. The finding provided the legal trigger for the agency to regulate emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) (see Daily GPI, Dec. 8, 2009).

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision that a distributor could owe county taxes on natural gas that it stores temporarily along the interstate gas pipeline system. Kansas City, MO-based Missouri Gas Energy (MGE), a subsidiary of Southern Union, challenged the Oklahoma Supreme Court decision, which held that MGE owed Woods County, OK, taxes for gas stored in the North Hopeton storage facility in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Before the high court, MGE argued that it was immune to the taxation under the the Commerce Clause. Millions of dollars were at stake in the case. Harriet Miers, former White House counsel and former President George W. Bush’s one-time nominee for the Supreme Court, filed the petition for certiorari in 2009 on behalf of MGE (see NGI, Oct. 19, 2009). At issue in the case was whether states and local governments have the power to tax a distributor’s natural gas that is stored temporarily in an interstate pipeline system.

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday upheld a lower court’s decision that a distributor could owe county taxes on natural gas that it stores temporarily along the interstate gas pipeline system.

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday upheld a lower court’s decision that a distributor could owe county taxes on natural gas that it stores temporarily along the interstate gas pipeline system.