In a major surprise on Sunday, Virginia-based Dominion Energy and North Carolina-based Duke Energy, faced with a setback in federal court and falling natural gas prices, cancelled their 600-mile, $8 billion Atlantic Coast natural gas pipeline project. Shortly after that announcement, Richmond-based Dominion announced it was getting out of the competitive gas business, agreeing to… More Atlantic Coast gas project is dead, Dominion spins off mid-stream gas operations to Berkshire

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has given the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s use of tolling orders to delay action on cases before the regulators a mixed decision. Challenges to the long-established FERC practice came this spring, when local landowners said the FERC rules, which essentially allowed natural gas pipelines to become fait accompli while… More DC Circuit slams FERC tolling orders, critics comment on FERC transmission incentives