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US Senate panel ponders role of gas in climate-change effort (Oct 29, 2009)

Witnesses at an Oct. 28 US Senate committee hearing generally agreed that natural gas should play a major part in US efforts to address global climate change. They also disagreed on how big a part it should be.

House members urge ocean policy task force not to restrict OCS development (Oct 28, 2009)

Proposals in an interim report by the Obama administration’s Inter-Agency Ocean Policy Task Force must not interfere with the nation’s ability to safely develop its offshore resources, 68 US House members said on Oct. 26.

Congressional tax leaders urged to back high-paying energy jobs (Oct 27, 2009)

A coalition of 15 labor unions and the American Petroleum Institute urged congressional tax policy leaders to support proposals that would protect and encourage the development of high-quality US energy jobs while fortifying national energy and economic security.

Cap-and-trade preferable to EPA regulation, experts say (Oct 21, 2009)

Congress should continue to make a carbon cap-and-trade system its top global climate-change legislative priority because it would be the most efficient and economically attractive approach, three experts agreed on Oct. 20.

Salazar announces oil shale lease round, addenda inquiry (Oct 21, 2009)

US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a second round of federal oil shale leases on Oct. 20 with substantially different terms than the first round.

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