MISO stakeholders will complete voting on June 16 on three options for responding to FERC’s final rule on coordinating gas and electric schedules.

Kinder Morgan has scaled back a natural gas pipeline proposed for New England, but the changes will have little effect on the overall project.

Protesters are descending on D.C. throughout this week to protest FERC and its approval of natural gas infrastructure projects.

About 50 people attended a FERC scoping meeting on the Atlantic Bridge Project, which would expand the Algonquin pipeline.

The U.S. electric industry will face reliability concerns in four years if the interim goals of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan aren’t relaxed, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. said last week.

Natural gas demand and production both set records in 2014, while gas trading declined for the fourth straight year, FERC reported last week.

Natural gas industry representatives reacted coolly to the idea of a centralized gas trading platform, suggesting the industry could improve its service to electric generators through smaller, incremental changes.

Duke Energy, Dominion Resources and other partners last week proposed a 550-mile, $5 billion pipeline to carry natural gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale formations to Virginia and eastern North Carolina.

Federal officials should do more to reduce leaks in natural gas distribution pipelines, the EPA’s Inspector General said in a report last week.

A look at how MISO and the Northeast RTOs are planning to cope with winter 2014-15.