GOP Senators Intro Bill to Block Biden DOE from Banning Gas Stoves
Last week five Republican U.S. Senators introduced the Natural Gas Appliances Standards (Natural GAS) Act of 2023. The bill would block any rulemaking by the Dept. of Energy (DOE) that could have the effect of outlawing the sale of a range of natural gas appliances, including (most particularly) gas stoves. Among other things, the bill stipulates the DOE may not put forward a rule that would limit the features of gas stoves, such as quick boil times, number and size of burners, and design of grates.
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This is another in our series of what it’s like living “Behind Enemy Lines.” MDN editor Jim Willis lives in Upstate New York (Binghamton area). Our freedoms in NY are being stripped away at an alarming rate. The radical left is in full control of the state, as is illustrated by a recent debate between Gov. Kathy Hochul (a far-left radical) and others in the Democrat Party even further to the left of Hochul, if such a thing is possible. The people left of Hochul are resisting a reasonable compromise in the current budget that would change the current timeline for methane accounting from 20 years to 100 years.
Last week it was a miracle when the three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (i.e. 4th Circuit clown judges) turned back an appeal of a permit issued by the Virginia State Water Control Board allowing Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to cross some 150 streams and wetlands in Southwest West Virginia (see 
Yesterday, EQT Corporation and Context Labs announced a partnership to advance the commercialization of verified low-carbon intensity natural gas products and carbon credits. The partnership brings together EQT, the largest natural gas producer in the U.S., and Context Labs, an expert in distributed ledger technology, advanced climate data, and analytics. The partnership will help EQT prove that the natural gas it produces is low-carbon and responsible, and make it easier to market the gas to those who want to buy (and pay more for) low-carbon gas.
National Grid is desperately trying not to run out of natural gas for its customers in Brooklyn and Queens (on Long Island). It appears because of opposition from crazy leftists, they won’t succeed. For several years the company has fought a battle to run a tiny pipeline to its Greenpoint, Brooklyn facility to provide extra natural gas. That project is going nowhere fast. National Grid has/had a backup plan in case it could not complete the pipeline project–add two extra LNG vaporizers to the Greenpoint facility to turn trucked LNG back into gas that can flow through the system. It seems even Plan B is now gone. What’s left are coming gas outages for Long Island.
The NYMEX futures price for natural gas recently hit a 30-month low (see 
We really have seen it all now. A news story appearing in the Washington Free Beacon discusses how a large Democrat Political Action Committee (PAC) is trashing Gov. Ron DeSantis for his support of natural gas. American Bridge 21st Century launched a website on Monday that hits DeSantis over his support for natural gas, the use of fracking, and projects like the Keystone XL pipeline. The PAC, which told DeSantis in its launch post that “we’re coming for you,” suggested DeSantis’s position has harmed the environment and contributed to climate change. Yet a lobbying firm closely connected to the PAC, ABI Associates, has gotten $240,000 from the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA)! Words escape us…
The ARCH2 (Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub) project, the West Virginia-led effort to attract government funding for one of 6-10 regional hydrogen hubs, took a leap forward today with the announcement by Adams Fork Energy, Haldor Topsoe, and CNX Resources Corp. of a plan to build a “multi-billion-dollar” clean ammonia manufacturing facility in southern West Virginia. CNX will provide natural gas to the plant, tentatively scheduled to begin construction in 2024 in Mingo County, WV. The ammonia plant will be an “anchor project” in the ARCH2 Hydrogen Hub application currently under consideration by the U.S. Dept. of Energy.
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) published notice in the April 1 Pennsylvania Bulletin that it has denied a request by the Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Association (PIOGA) to reconsider the agency’s plan to regulate small, completely safe natural gas gathering pipelines. We have the news of the PUC’s rejection, and what it means, along with an exclusive–the official response from PIOGA.
The West Virginia Public Energy Authority (PEA) is a seven-member board that aims to make the best use of WV’s abundant natural energy resources. State code gives the board power to buy, lease, and issue bonds to build electric power plants and natural gas transmission projects. Gov. Jim Justice reactivated the board in the summer of 2021 after it had been dormant for most of a decade. The first meeting of the new board was held in February 2022 (see 
We have new evidence that so-called environmental groups, including a long list of anti-fracking groups in Pennsylvania, don’t really care about the environmental at all. They only care about the power to dictate to you what energy sources you can and cannot use–as a way of controlling you. Great strides have been made in capturing and sequestering (storing underground) carbon dioxide (CO2). These so-called environmental groups all say that CO2 is killing Mom Earth. Yet when real science is employed to control CO2 (to sequester it), they attempt to block it. Why is that?
Three weeks ago, Chesapeake Energy announced a 15-year deal to provide natural gas for LNG exports to Gunvor Singapore Pte (see 
The Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) is a group formed under the umbrella of the United Nations. It is a “member-led initiative” of institutional investors committed to transitioning their investment portfolios to mythical net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The group’s members (some of the biggest banks and investment firms in the world) have some $11 TRILLION of assets under management. It’s mind-bogglingly huge. NZAOA issued an edict last week to its members: No new direct investments in upstream oil and gas infrastructure projects for new fields. Period.
We have watched, with some distress, the crashing and burning of the price for natural gas in recent weeks and months (see 
In October 2021, Nacero announced a $6 billion gas-to-liquids (GTL) refinery to be built on the site of a former coal mine in Newport Township and Nanticoke in Luzerne County, PA (see 
We have been closely tracking the restart of the shuttered Freeport LNG export terminal following its emergency shutdown in June 2022 after an explosion and fire. Earlier this week, we told you about the plant’s rocky restart road, with feedgas flowing to the plant averaging around 50% of total capacity (see