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The poll, taken Dec. 14-17, was conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. of Washington, DC, with 625 registered voters polled. The margin of error is plus or minus 4%.

The civil contempt trial of Interior Secretary Gale Norton got under way last Monday in federal court in Washington, DC, with the lead attorney for Native Americans declaring that Norton and the department “have abused this court” and the “integrity of the judicial process” by failing to comply with orders in 1999 that directed the agency to clean up its management of individual Indian trust accounts.

Saying it was experiencing maximum withdrawals at the Washington Ranch storage facility, El Paso declared an Unauthorized Overpull Penalty situation Wednesday morning due to low linepack. Because of the OFO and high system demand, a maintenance shutdown of Line 1100 upstream of Guadalupe Station that had been scheduled for today was postponed until further notice.

The Interior Department has shut down its web site in compliance with a temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by a federal judge in Washington, DC.

A federal judge in Washington, DC, has ordered Interior Secretary Gale Norton to face a civil contempt trial for failure to comply with court orders to clean up the alleged mismanagement of royalty monies held and overseen by the agency in the Indian Trust Fund.

The anthrax-laced mail scare in Washington, DC has hastened the progress being made at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on electronic filing of documents.

The anthrax-laced mail hoaxes in Washington, DC have quickened the progress being made at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on electronic filing of documents.

The Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets (CAEM) in Washington has branched out with a new affiliate, CAEM Canada, which has as its first major policy initiative, the Canadian Energy Restructuring Forum.

In the wake of recent terrorist attacks on Washington, DC, New York City and an airliner that crashed in Pennsylvania, issues related to the security of the nation’s energy infrastructure came to the fore at a hearing last Thursday on Capitol Hill. Several members of Congress made it clear that they stand ready to craft legislation designed to meet possible threats to the transmission grid, pipelines and other key sectors of the energy industry.