Regulatory

Rio Blanco County, CO, elected officials recently passed a measure to temporarily suspend impact fees on oil/natural gas development to encourage business expansion.

The head of the Interior Department's (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) told a Senate panel that the Obama administration is opposed to three of the 26 energy bills that are being considered for inclusion in a broader, comprehensive energy bill.

An oversight hearing by a House committee Tuesday provided no conclusions about whether western states are more able to oversee dwindling greater sage grouse habitat, but there was plenty of grumbling by Republican members about federal oversight.

Texas lawmakers sided with the liquefied natural gas industry in calling for the U.S. Congress to expedite export approvals by doing away with…

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) has unanimously approved Philadelphia-based PECO Energy Co.’s long-term infrastructure improvement plan (LTIIP), which is expected to cost the company more than $534 million and take two decades to complete.

Nearly 28,000 comments on the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline were filed at FERC during a recent 60-day scoping period, 82% of them in support of the project…

In an effort to improve access to international energy data and trends in global energy markets, the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Monday launched a redesigned version of its International Energy Portal.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has unanimously approved Philadelphia-based PECO Energy Co.'s long-term infrastructure improvement plan, which is expected to cost the company more than $534 million and take two decades to complete.

Nearly 28,000 comments on the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) were filed at FERC during a recent 60-day scoping period, 82% of them in support of the project, according to an analysis prepared for the project’s backers by Natural Resource Group.