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Oil and gas industry organizations Friday were joining Louisiana’s Sen. Mary Landrieu in urging President Obama to rescind the blanket moratorium on deepwater operations in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), calling it a “one-size-fits-all” moratorium that will add further job loss and economic woes to a region already dealing with the devastation of the GOM oil spill.

Oil and gas industry organizations Friday were joining Louisiana’s Sen. Mary Landrieu in urging President Obama to rescind the blanket moratorium on deepwater operations in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), calling it a “one-size-fits-all” moratorium that will add further job loss and economic woes to a region already dealing with the devastation of the GOM oil spill.

Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA) sent a letter last Thursday to Senate leaders urging them not to accept legislative language that would give FERC the authority to approve transmission facilities interconnecting with renewable energy sources and to require that the cost of the new facilities be shared with customers system-wide.

Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA) sent a letter Thursday to Senate leaders urging them not to accept legislative language that would give FERC the authority to approve transmission facilities interconnecting with renewable energy sources and to require that the cost of the new facilities be shared system-wide.

Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA) sent a letter Thursday to Senate leaders urging them not to accept legislative language that would give FERC the authority to approve transmission facilities interconnecting with renewable energy sources and to require that the cost of the new facilities be shared system-wide.

Florida Public Utilities Co. (FPU) has sent a letter to shareholders urging their approval of a proposed $595 million merger with Chesapeake Utilities Corp. and saying Energy Inc., an opponent of the merger, has “mischaracterize[d] important facts” of the deal.

Ninety-eight House Republicans Friday sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar urging him to proceed with the review of the Bush-era offshore leasing plan for 2010-2015 that was put on hold earlier this year.

Ninety-eight House Republicans Friday sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar urging him to proceed with the review of the Bush-era offshore leasing plan for 2010-2015 that was put on hold earlier this year.

A U.S. senator and a representative from Colorado last Tuesday wrote to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, a fellow Coloradan, urging that the federal government take steps to make so-called “produced water” from oil and gas production accessible to supplement depleted water supplies. They want drought-stricken areas, such as Colorado, to benefit from use of the byproduct of traditional fuel generation.