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(Washington, DC) A new study by the Natural Gas Council concludes that legislation to be debated in the U.S. Senate this week is likely to increase natural gas demand without addressing the need for increased supply. David Parker, president and CEO [...] Read More

  Richard Hoffmann Named as Executive Director of the INGAA Foundation   WASHINGTON-- The Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) announced today that Richard R. Hoffmann will join the staff of INGAA on January 21, 2008 as [...] Read More

The natural gas transmission industry faces a difficult challenge in maintaining an adequate technical workforce today and throughout the next decade.  The INGAA Foundation has released a new report,  “Securing Our future: Developing [...] Read More

INGAA along with IPAA and NGSA, expressed their opposition to HR3221 and HR2776 in a letter written to Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representative,.  These bills profess a focus on energy independence; yet, their impact on [...] Read More

The California registry has released the final draft report of the transmission and storage GHG reporting protocol discussion paper.  In addition to the final draft, they have also developed a matrix of comments received and their proposed [...] Read More

The Secretary for Environmental Protection in California created the Market Advisory Committee, a committee of national and international experts, to develop recommendations for designing a market-based program for reducing California’s GHG [...] Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  WASHINGTON  – Responding to a request from leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee for perspectives on global climate change policy options, the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America [...] Read More

2006 was a very good year for the Foundation with respect to membership growth.   Foundation membership grew by 10 percent in 2006.  We added 11 new members.  2007 continues in that vein.  In January, three new members have [...] Read More

Climate change is rapidly becoming the key domestic policy issue for the new Congress.  A flurry of legislative proposals has already been introduced, and Speaker Pelosi has stated that climate change will be the focus for her leadership over [...] Read More

The Senate Finance Committee will begin reviewing energy tax policy in the coming months, and we understand that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) would like an energy tax bill on the Senate floor before the year is out.  Expect Senate [...] Read More

The 110th Congress got off to a running start, particularly in the House where Speaker Pelosi focused on her “100 Hours” agenda.  That agenda included, of course, the repeal of several tax benefits for oil and natural gas producers, as well [...] Read More

On January 16, the DC Circuit heard oral arguments in INGAA's challenge to FERC's orders requiring the expensing of costs incurred to comply with the Pipeline Safety Act of 2002.  The appeal focuses principally on the baseline testing (i.e., [...] Read More

We are in the process of finalizing the content of the Foundation’s Midyear meeting. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines outside of Austin, TX on April 26-27.  Please mark this on your calendars and encourage appropriate [...] Read More

On February 7-8, PHMSA held a joint government/industry research and development forum in New Orleans.  The event included approximately 250 representatives from Federal, State and international government agencies, public representatives, [...] Read More

As a follow up to the INGAA Foundation’s successful October 2006 SCADA Workshop, the Foundation held its second SCADA Workshop in Houston on February 12-13.  While the first workshop focused primarily on issue identification, this follow-up [...] Read More

On February 22, INGAA attended a working group kick-off meeting of the California Climate Action Registry (CCAR) and World Resources Institute (WRI) protocol initiative.  The purpose of this project is to produce a guidance document and [...] Read More

Since the beginning of the year, INGAA, working with input from several member companies, began working with Diamax Information Services to redesign and implementation of a new INGAA website.  Diamax was asked to review INGAA’s current web [...] Read More

Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman has been announcing his intent to introduce a comprehensive energy bill within the next several months, focusing specifically on renewable energy development, biofuel production and infrastructure, and [...] Read More

Climate change is the issue-of-the-day for Congress, as numerous hearings get underway on the science surrounding climate change, and legislative solutions for addressing the problem.  House Speaker Pelosi has put her Committee Chairmen on [...] Read More

On February 5, INGAA submitted comments to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, urging that a draft report to Congress by DOE and DOI continues to misinterpret the nature of tribal sovereignty and tribal authority under EPAct, underestimates the problems [...] Read More