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WV: Special session to last another day for gas-tax bill

By Phil Kabler

Legislators will spend one more day in special session, after House Republicans blocked a passage vote Thursday on a bill (SB4004) to freeze the state's gasoline tax at the current 32.2 cents a gallon.

US: Senate panel debates offshore drilling

By Siobhan Hughes

WASHINGTON -- A Senate panel on Thursday battled over whether the country could expand oil and gas drilling in coastal waters without damaging the environment, spotlighting one of the big fights over climate legislation.

AK: Alaska gets money for green jobs

By The Associated Press

Pacific Northwest states are getting more than $1.1 million from the U.S. Department of Labor to encourage green jobs.

CA: Utility shut-offs soar for poor PG&E customers

By David R. Baker

The number of low-income households cut off by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. after they fell behind on their utility bills jumped 75 percent this year, according to a state report released Thursday.

CO: Xcel Energy lops nearly $44 million off rate-increase request

By David O. Williams

Xcel Energy Thursday filed for state approval of a settlement with consumer groups in its ongoing rate case before the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC), knocking nearly $44 million from its rate-increase request.

DE: Delaware asked to invest in wind company

By Aaron Nathans

A startup company whose management includes former Lt. Gov. John Carney is seeking a state investment of $350,000 to establish an operation in Wilmington to manufacture support towers for wind turbines.

HI: Average statewide gas price up for fifth straight week to $3.35

By Staff Reports

The average price of a gallon of regular gas in Hawaii rose for the fifth consecutive week to $3.35 a gallon, according to the AAA Hawaii Weekend Gas Watch.

HI: State gets $1.24M in federal funding to promote 'green' jobs

By Staff Reports

The state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations said it has been awarded $1.24 million in federal funds to be used in developing an information bank to facilitate job training, job search and placement in "green jobs."

IN: Indiana regulators approve heating assistance

By The Associated Press

Consumer advocates say they're encouraged by state regulators' decision to allow Indiana utilities to reinstate heating assistance programs for the needy, but the next step is up to the utilities.

KY: Senate hopefuls squabble about terrorism, coal

By Jack Brammer

LOUISVILLE — Republicans Trey Grayson and Rand Paul exchanged sharp words on the issue of GuantÃ¡namo Bay, and Democrats Jack Conway and Daniel Mongiardo squabbled about their alliances with coal.

KY: Kentucky PSC recommends ways to prevent power outages

By Patrick Howington

The Kentucky Public Service Commission offered a broad — and expensive — set of recommendations Thursday to limit power outages and ease recovery when the lights go out.

LA: Ark., Miss. let out of utility agreement

By Mark Ballard

Federal regulators Thursday allowed Entergy Corp.'s subsidiaries in Mississippi and Arkansas to withdraw from an agreement that includes hundreds of millions of dollars in refunds for the utility's Louisiana customers.

NH: Proposals sought for northern NH heating project

By The Associated Press

PLYMOUTH, N.H. -- A new project is under way to help northern New Hampshire communities save money and the environment.

OH: New natural gas pipeline boosts Ohio

By Jon Chavez

Natural gas from the $4.4 billion Rockies Express pipeline had been flowing into a terminal at Lebanon, Ohio, between Cincinnati and Dayton since June.

RI: In Providence, a crescent of green business sprouts

By Alex Kuffner

When Alteris Renewables decided to add another office in either Rhode Island or Southeastern Massachusetts, it considered Fall River, New Bedford and Bristol.

TN: TVA price increases fuel higher tax payments

By Dave Flessner

Higher electricity prices may have squeezed recession-weary consumers in the past two years, but the higher TVA rates are helping to funnel more money into state and local government coffers.

TN: TVA cuts bonuses; no pay raise for top brass

By Dave Flessner

For the first time since the Tennessee Valley Authority revamped its top management about three years ago, the federal utility didn't give pay raises or performance bonuses to its top managers this year.

TN: Water quality penalty expected next year

By Cliff Hightower

Chattanooga could be fined as early as next spring for not living up to the standards of its water quality permit, a Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation official said Thursday.

UT: Utah oil and gas leases should be reinstated, report says

By Amy Joi O'Donoghue

A new analysis by an association representing oil and gas producers asserts the Department of the Interior thwarted the public process and "second-guessed" its own land managers when it yanked bids on oil and gas parcels sold at a controversial auction in Salt Lake City last December.

WA: BPA proposal for new high-voltage line draws heat

By The Associated Press

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A Bonneville Power Administration proposal to build a new high-voltage power line across one of several possible corridors between new substations in Castle Rock, Wash., and Troutdale, Ore., is drawing heated comment.

WV: Vote block extends special session to fourth day

By Staff and Wire Reports

House Republicans on Thursday blocked the Legislature from voting on two bills sought by the Manchin administration, throwing a special session into a fourth day. In a largely symbolic move, the Republicans prevented Democrats from suspending House rules Thursday to advance one bill that would have made changes to the state gasoline tax and another to encourage the use of energy sources other than coal by state utilities.

WY: Revenue committee finally passes some tax bills

By Phil Noble

The legislature's Joint Interim Revenue Committee spent the day Nov. 18 killing bills, including measures calling for taxes on electric generation, wind energy, property and fuel.

WY: Don't blame wind, officials say

By Dustin Bleizeffer

Power producers have installed more than 500 megawatts of wind energy generation in Wyoming in the past year.

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