Read more natural gas stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/15124/natural-gas.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 5:55:51 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72000/energy-lobby-split-on-climate-thrilling-greens.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith the Senate set to consider legislation to tax carbon and rein in global warming, a split has emerged among the energy lobby that may make it easier to pass a clean-energy law. Natural gas producers favor a bill, while their colleagues in the oil industry oppose it; electric companies...http://www.newser.com/story/72000/energy-lobby-split-on-climate-thrilling-greens.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 19 Oct 2009 6:30:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63842/eu-slaps-gas-firms-with-15b-fine-for-price-fixing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe European Union's powerful competition commissioner slapped two energy companies with record fines of $1.53 billion today for cartel misbehavior. GDF Suez and E.ON, two of the world's biggest gas producers, colluded to avoid competition in French and German energy markets and drive up prices. It's the first...http://www.newser.com/story/63842/eu-slaps-gas-firms-with-15b-fine-for-price-fixing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 08 Jul 2009 5:48:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63796/feds-consider-limits-on-oil-energy-speculation.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFederal regulators may impose new limits on the amount of energy-futures contracts that speculators can buy, the New York Times reports, an attempt to curb severe price fluctuations in commodities like oil and natural gas. Oil prices swung from $145 per barrel last summer to $33 in December, movement some...http://www.newser.com/story/63796/feds-consider-limits-on-oil-energy-speculation.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 07 Jul 2009 14:54:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63151/6-killed-in-italy-train-explosion.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA train carrying liquefied natural gas derailed in Italy tonight, causing explosions that killed at least six people and injured dozens more, the Times of London reports. The train jumped the tracks as it was leaving the station in the northern town of Viareggio, triggering the explosion of two gas-filled...http://www.newser.com/story/63151/6-killed-in-italy-train-explosion.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 29 Jun 2009 21:44:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60152/congress-mulls-tighter-offshore-drilling-rules.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA bill pushed by Dick Cheney 4 years ago freed natural-gas drillers from clean-water laws, but pollution concerns are driving congressional Democrats to rethink the matter, ProPublica reports. They’ve drafted legislation that would end the natural-gas exemption and require drillers to reveal the chemicals they use in their work, some...http://www.newser.com/story/60152/congress-mulls-tighter-offshore-drilling-rules.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 27 May 2009 10:27:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59197/putins-gas-strategy-backfires-as-prices-fall.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe very strategies that made Gazprom an international force are now causing the energy giant—and consequently, Moscow—unaccustomed financial stress, the New York Times reports. Vladimir Putin built Gazprom into a goliath by aggressively dominating natural gas supplies, but to do it, he entered into long-term contracts to buy...http://www.newser.com/story/59197/putins-gas-strategy-backfires-as-prices-fall.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 16 May 2009 10:43:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57600/natural-gas-finds-could-herald-energy-shift-in-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA huge natural-gas discovery in Louisiana, on the heels of similar finds elsewhere over the past decade, is fueling a push to shift the nation’s energy portfolio, the Wall Street Journal reports. Louisiana’s Haynesville Shale could hold the energy equivalent of 18 years of current US oil production; one industry...http://www.newser.com/story/57600/natural-gas-finds-could-herald-energy-shift-in-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 30 Apr 2009 8:42:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55205/wind-could-provide-all-us-power-feds.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOffshore winds are a largely untapped resource that could potentially supply the US with even more electricity than it currently needs, according to a new Interior Department report. The report says the area off the Atlantic coast could meet more than one-fourth of the national power demand, but the fact...http://www.newser.com/story/55205/wind-could-provide-all-us-power-feds.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 03 Apr 2009 10:18:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53345/us-drilling-boom-stalls-for-oil-gas.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIt doesn't pay to drill, baby, drill anymore. Falling world prices have brought an end to the boom in domestic drilling for oil and natural gas, the New York Times reports. Last summer, 2,400 gas and oil rigs were deployed in the hunt for energy. Today, that figure is...http://www.newser.com/story/53345/us-drilling-boom-stalls-for-oil-gas.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 14 Mar 2009 15:10:00 CDT