Washington DC -May 13- Working gas in storage was 2,089 Bcf as of Friday, May 7, 2010, according to EIA estimates. This represents a net increase of 94 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 97 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 325 Bcf above the 5-year average of 1,764 Bcf.

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Washington DC -May 13- United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today welcomed an aid package announced by the White House that is aimed at assisting Gulf Coast communities affected by the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Washington DC -May 12- U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 15.0 million barrels per day during the week ending May 7, 110 thousand barrels per day below the previous week’s average.

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Washington DC -May 11- Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr., (NJ-06), Senator Robert Menendez, along with Senator Frank Lautenberg, and representatives John Sarbanes (MD-03), Albio Sires (NJ-13), Rush Holt (NJ-12), Steven Rothman (NJ-09), Donald Payne (NJ-06) and Elijah Cummings (MD-07) Monday sent a letter requesting Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell withdraw support for Big Oil and any offshore drilling in the state.

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Washington DC -May 3- At least three states along the Gulf of Mexico are preparing for a potential call for thousands of National Guard members as the nation ramps up its response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

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Washington DC -April 28- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. the sponsor of legislation that would ban offshore drilling along the North- and Mid-Atlantic States, issued the following statement in response to the hearing in Newark on the Obama Administration’s plan to pursue offshore oil and gas exploration along the Atlantic Coast:

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Washington DC -April 28- “The findings from the 2007 National Resources Inventory (NRI) serve as a stark reminder that our nation’s agricultural land base—and the benefits it supplies—is threatened by poorly planned development,” says Jon Scholl, President of American Farmland Trust (AFT).

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Washington DC -April 26- The national security risks that stem from the United States’ heavy reliance on foreign oil are well documented. One in five barrels of U.S. oil come from countries that the State Department considers to be “dangerous or unstable.

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Washington DC - April 15 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the award of grants to permanently protect private forestland in 33 states and U.S. territories through the Forest Legacy Program (FLP).

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Washington DC - April 14 - Marine debris is one of the most widespread pollution problems, with plastics making up approximately three-quarters of all trash floating in the ocean. During the 24th annual International Coastal Cleanup volunteers removed and recorded 7.4 million pounds of trash in 108 countries and locations.

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Washington DC - April 14 - Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) reported that three months of analysis by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has yielded no new evidence that Asian carp have bypassed the electric barrier in the Chicago Ship and Sanity Canal.

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Washington DC - April 14 - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the Department’s strategy for gathering environmental, ecological and technical information to inform decisions on oil and gas development in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas in the Arctic Ocean.

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Washington DC - April 6 - Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Chief Dave White announced the availability of $61.2 million in financial assistance funding for Agricultural Water Enhancement Program (AWEP) projects.

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Washington DC - April 5 - Many forests depleted by the 1800’s for agriculture and timber are now seeing a resurgence as rocky farmlands abandoned for land in the West begin a natural recovery, as reported in The Washington Post.

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Washington DC - April 2 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a set of actions to further clarify and strengthen environmental permitting requirements for Appalachian mountaintop removal and other surface coal mining projects, in coordination with federal and state regulatory agencies.

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