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INGAA would like to file the following information to docket PHMSA–2008–0255 in order to clarify the INGAA position discussed in the previously filed document.  There has been Corrective Action Orders (CAO) published recently [...] Read More

  When it issued Order No. 720, requiring interstate pipelines to report no notice service on a point basis, the Commission stated that the requirement would not be unduly burdensome because “[a]n interstate natural gas pipeline should [...] Read More

The Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) appreciates the Commission's Final Rule in this proceeding, Order No. 717, Standards of Conduct for Transmission Providers, 125 FERC ¶ 61,024 (October 16, 2008). As the Commission [...] Read More

On July 30, 2008, the EPA issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) requesting public comment on whether and how the agency should regulate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) using its authority under the Clean Air Act (CAA).  The [...] Read More

The INGAA Foundation, Inc. retained BBI International (BBI) to analyze the natural gas implications for future alternative fuels plants. This analysis looked at current and future biofuels plants and quantities and estimated thermal energy [...] Read More

On November 12, INGAA filed comments on PHMSA’s notice of proposed rulemaking proposing an extension of regulations that would govern control room management for natural gas transmission pipelines and hazardous liquid pipelines.  The [...] Read More

This report forecasts that North American unconventional natural gas recoverable reserves from tight gas, coalbed methane, and shale gas formations exceed 900 trillion cubic feet (Tcf).  The report states that overall recoverable natural gas [...] Read More

The Interstate Natural Gas Association of America supports the Draft Environmental Assessment and shares the Services’ conclusion that the proposed amendments are wholly procedural, not substantive, and adopting these regulations would not [...] Read More

Amici Curiae of INGAA, NGSA, AGA and IPAA in support of Petitioner Islander East Pipeline Company. In PUD No. 1 of Jefferson County v. Washington Dep’t of Ecology, 511 U. S. 700, 722 (1994), the Court reserved the question whether a [...] Read More

  The Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) submits comments in response to the Proposed Revisions to the Endangered Species Act Section 7 Consultation Regulations, 73 Fed. Reg 47868 (August 15, 2008) by the U.S. Fish and [...] Read More

WASHINGTON – According to a letter issued by the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA), H.R. 6720 (The Natural Gas Strategy Act), if enacted, would stifle investment in natural gas infrastructure at a critical time for the [...] Read More

According to the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA), H.R. 6720 (The Natural Gas Strategy Act), if enacted, would stifle investment in natural gas infrastructure at a critical time for the expansion of the nation’s energy [...] Read More

  On July 14, 2008, INGAA and the Council on State Taxation sumitted a brief Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner, Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation in Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation v. Richard A. Levin, Tax Commissioner [...] Read More

INGAA moves for leave to file an amicus curiae letter supporting the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Petition for Rehearing, With a Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc,” filed July 21, 2008.  In this case, a majority of the [...] Read More

Comments on the U.S. EPA’s proposed rule Standards of Performance (New Source Performance Standards (NSPS)) for Stationary Spark Ignition Internal Combustion Engines and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for [...] Read More

On July 2, 2008 a coalition of environmental groups sent a letter to the U.S. EPA (“agency”) indicating their intent to sue within 60 days over the agency's failure to review and update three sets of air pollution regulations for oil and [...] Read More

WASHINGTON— Phillip D. Wright, President of Williams Gas Pipeline and Chairman of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) Board of Directors, announced today that the interstate natural gas pipeline industry has adopted a set [...] Read More

 INGAA requests that the Commission: (1) not impose a definite implementation date at this time to allow time for software development and testing, and continue to provide a testing site after implementation; (2) provide alternate procedures or [...] Read More

On May 19,  2008 INGAA submitted comments in response to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NOPR") issued by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration ("PHMSA") to promulgate regulations that would establish [...] Read More

INGAA requests the Commission retract the NOPR’s proposed amendment of 18 C.F.R. § 284.13(d), and thereby refrain from requiring interstate pipelines to post daily actual flows. Should the Commission instead go forward with an actual [...] Read More