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By Vorys On February 12, 2009

Energy Industry Challenges

This article from the Houston Business Journal reports that the energy industry will face significant challenges even as credit...


Tags: Energy

By Vorys On February 12, 2009

Ethanol Struggling

From the NYT: The goals set by Congress for the ethanol industry are in jeopardy barely a year after it enacted legislation meant...


Tags: Ethanol, Energy

On February 6, 2009, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in US v. Cundiff, et al. wherein the Court made...


Tags: Wetlands, Environment

EIA has issued its Short-Term Energy Outlook for February 2009: "The expectation of limited weather-driven consumption growth in...


Tags: Energy, EIA

By Vorys On February 10, 2009

Vermont Wind Project Passes Muster

The Vermont Supreme Court has upheld a decision by the state Public Service Board issuing a certificate of public good for a...


Tags: Wind, Alternative Energy, Energy

Natural gas retail suppliers and one customer sued Ohio's Tax Commissioner alleging that Ohio's tax scheme is discriminatory...


Tags: Energy, Tax

By Vorys On February 10, 2009

Marcellus Information

There's been a lot of interest recently in the development of natural gas from Marcellus Shale. If you have such an interest, you...


Tags: Marcellus, Energy

By Vorys On February 10, 2009

Forest Service Acreage

Nearly 67,000 acres of National Forest land in southwestern Colorado have been withdrawn from auction by the U.S. Forest Service,...


Tags: Energy

By Vorys On February 9, 2009

What Happened to LNG?

According to this article in the WSJ, Alan Greenspan appeared before Congress in 2003 to testify that the U.S. needed to become a...


Tags: LNG, Energy, Shale

By Vorys On February 5, 2009

U.S. Top Wind Producer 2008

This is interesting: In 2008, the U.S. became the world leader for total wind production, overtaking Germany (the leader for...


Tags: Alternative Energy, Energy, Environment

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