Winning

After winning a critical procedural vote last Thursday, the Democrat-crafted legislation overhauling the financial regulatory system cruised to an easy victory in the Senate. President Obama said he planned to sign the bill into law this week.

After winning a critical procedural vote Thursday, the Democrat-crafted legislation overhauling the financial regulatory system cruised to an easy victory in the Senate. President Obama said he planned to sign the bill into law next week.

Democrats Tuesday fell short of winning enough votes to move forward with limited debate on their sweeping legislation to reform the financial regulatory system.

Democrats Tuesday fell short of winning enough votes to move forward with limited debate on their sweeping legislation to reform the financial regulatory system.

Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu were sworn in Wednesday at the White House as secretaries of the departments of Interior and Energy, respectively.

President-elect Barack Obama has picked Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu, who runs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California, to be secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE) in his administration, and has selected experienced regulators to oversee three other offices dealing with energy, environmental and climate-change issues, Washington sources said. No formal announcement had been issued Thursday morning.

The Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) last Tuesday remanded to Coos County its permit for the development of the Jordan Cove LNG project and related interstate-connecting pipeline. The county now has the option of revising the permit in an effort to gain approval from the appeals board.

FERC’s proposed rule that would require interstate and certain major intrastate pipelines to post actual flows is not winning any plaudits from the pipeline sector, and even producers have asked the agency to scale back the scope of the proposed rule to limit the costs to the pipelines, which would more than likely flow to shippers and producers.

FERC’s proposed rule that would require interstate and certain major intrastate pipelines to post actual flows is not winning any plaudits from the pipeline sector, and even producers have asked the agency to scale back the scope of the proposed rule to limit the costs to pipelines, which would more than likely flow to shippers and producers.