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Utah Governor Pushing For Regulatory Primacy on Federal Lands

Utah's Republican Gov. Gary Herbert said during remarks at last week's Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) conference that he's asked the organization to pass a resolution urging the federal government to delegate primacy to the states for regulating oil and gas operations on federal land. Read More

West Virginia Selects Winning Bids for Ohio River Leases

The West Virginia Department of Commerce has selected winning bids from three operators that want to develop valuable mineral rights below the Ohio River in Marshall, Wetzel and Tyler counties. Read More

COGA Agrees to Drop Lawsuit Against Longmont Frack Ban

Given political and legal developments in recent months that strengthen the state's position in regulating oil and natural gas activities, the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) agreed Tuesday to dismiss its nearly two-year-old lawsuit against a city ban on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) passed by Longmont, CO, voters. Read More

Prairie State Pipeline Would Give Chicago, Midwest Multi-Basin Access

Tallgrass Development LP and AGL Resources Inc. are proposing the 140-mile, 1.2-1.5 Bcf/d Prairie State Pipeline to connect the Illinois... Read More

Ohio Awards Grant for Wastewater Treatment Research

Researchers at Ohio University and their oil and gas industry collaborators have been awarded $1.45 million to advance a technology that could keep more production and flowback water at the drilling site instead of heading to contentious underground disposal wells. Read More

California Drought Means Less Hydro, More Gas-Fired Power

With 58% of California now in exceptional drought conditions, the state's source of hydroelectric power is down sharply, while reliance on natural gas-fired generation and renewables increased steadily during a dry period stretching back to 2011. Read More

For First Time in Decades, WV to Lease Valuable Mineral Rights Under Ohio River

The West Virginia Department of Commerce is evaluating bids from several exploration and production (E&P) companies interested in valuable mineral rights below the Ohio River in the northern part of the state. Read More

North Dakota Eyes $800M to Keep Up With Oil Boom

North Dakota's state lawmakers continue to scramble to maintain and expand infrastructure impacted by the oil/natural gas boom in the state that spills over from the Bakken/Three Forks shale plays into the western counties and local communities. Read More

State, Local Officials Seek Investigation of PG&E, CPUC

State and local elected officials from around San Bruno, CA, on Friday called for California Attorney General Kamala Harris to investigate the latest revelations of inappropriate state regulator-utility contact evolving from Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s (PG&E) pending natural gas system rate case (see Daily GPI, Sept. 16). Read More

Injection Wells Worry Oklahoma Lawmaker

An Oklahoma state representative is mulling the need for new regulations to govern oil and gas drilling waste disposal wells due to fears of groundwater contamination... Read More