Homer News by Tim Bradner (NGP Photo). The state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corp. has developed preliminary designs for “offtake” facilities that would allow communities to take natural gas from a large-diameter gas pipeline, if one were built.
The designs were presented to AGDC’s board of directors at its June 11 meeting.
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Under legislation allowing the state to participate in the large Alaska LNG Project, the state has the responsibility to designate up to five gas “offtake” points for communities along the pipeline route, and to assist in developing facilities including lateral pipelines, such as one planned to be built to Fairbanks from the route of the large gas pipeline.
The Hill by Timothy Cama.
A Senate spending panel advanced a bill Tuesday to block or weaken key Obama administration environmental rules on climate change, water and other subjects.
The bill would fund the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Interior Department and other related agencies at $30.01 billion for the 2016 fiscal year, about $400 million less than what Congress passed for this year.
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The Hill by Deven Henry. The House Appropriations committee approved a $30.17 billion Interior and Environment spending bill on Tuesday that cuts Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funding by 9 percent and blocks key Obama administration climate rules. Lawmakers approved the bill on a mostly partyline vote, and much of the debate centered on measures in the bill targeting EPA policies. Republicans said the measures are necessary to rein in what committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) called an “unnecessary, job-killing regulatory agenda.” “This administration has been hell-bent on implementing all sorts of regulations that are harmful to both our economy and our energy security,” Rogers said. |
It would overturn the EPA’s rule asserting power over small waterways like wetlands and streams and prevent it from writing a strict new rule on ground-level ozone pollution.
Under the bill, administration officials would not be allowed to enforce the EPA’s carbon limits for power plants in states that object, or enforce the Interior Department’s regulations on hydraulic fracturing in states that already have such rules.
It is the first time the Senate has passed an Interior and EPA spending bill through subcommittee in six years.
“This bill aggressively deals with the EPA’s regulatory overreach on both the funding end and the sensible policy provisions,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo), chairwoman of the subcommittee responsible for writing the bill, said at the Tuesday meetings to consider it.
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