The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Columbia files app with FERC for Mountaineer, Gulf XPress pipelines; anti-oil protest in Albany rail yard fizzles; court won’t dismiss class action by PA landowners against XTO Energy in royalty case; surviving the slump in natgas industry; Trump appoints ND Congressman as energy advisor; EPA violating Supreme Court; Chesapeake pushes a boulder up a hill; and more!