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The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) wants to ease up on the way related sources of air emissions from industrial operations, including Marcellus Shale developments, are grouped together for regulatory purposes.

When it takes 75,000-100,000 bbl of water to hydraulically fracture (frack) a shale well, “the oil and gas industry is effectively a water industry and delivers oil and gas as a byproduct…so welcome to the water industry,” an environmental services executive told a Houston energy audience Wednesday.

A West Virginia man suing two energy companies in the Marcellus Shale wants his case returned to circuit court.

Large investment banks and hedge funds were behind skyrocketing prices in oil and natural gas in 2008, according Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who wants the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to impose immediate position limits.

Large investment banks and hedge funds were behind skyrocketing prices in oil and natural gas in 2008, according Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who wants the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to impose immediate position limits.

Having been part of the shale natural gas supply revolution, Chesapeake Energy Corp. wants to “kick-start the demand revolution,” CEO Aubrey McClendon said Monday when the company announced a $1 billion venture capital fund — Chesapeake NG Ventures Corp. (CNGV) — to invest in companies and technologies to enable replacement of gasoline and diesel fuel with natural gas and gas-to-liquids (GTL) fuels.

Energy billionaire T. Boone Pickens on Wednesday lashed out at recent U.S. oil import levels and urged Congress to reduce the nation’s foreign oil dependency.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to know how Marcellus Shale operators handle their produced water in Pennsylvania.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to know how Marcellus Shale operators handle their produced water in Pennsylvania.