Legislative obstacles are nothing new to US Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alas.). The 49th State’s senior senator, who chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has encountered many in her career. Source: News

Republican members of the US House of Representatives proposed a series of policy changes to tackle excessive regulations, develop more American energy, and curb lawsuit abuse as a third plank in their "Better Way" for the next administration. Source: News

A federal district court judge in Wyoming set aside the US Bureau of Land Management’s final hydraulic fracturing rule after finding the agency did not have the necessary congressional authority to impose it. Source: News

Antero Resources Corp., Denver, has agreed to acquire 55,000 net acres of undeveloped Marcellus shale leasehold-including deep rights on 41,000 net acres prospective for the underlying dry Utica-and 14 MMcfed of net production from Southwestern Energy Co., Houston, for $450 million. Source: News

How many protestors dressed as dinosaurs to disparage fossil energy-tagged as symbols of activism in the first part of this editorial series-can define "climate sensitivity?" How many can explain why climate sensitivity is important to the politics of energy? Source: News

As publisher of the OGJ150 each September, editors at Oil & Gas Journal already have a pretty good idea of which US industry firms are handling the downturn better or worse relative to their peers. Source: News

Braskem Idesa SAPI, a 75-25 joint venture of Braskem SA, Sao Paulo, and Groupo Idesa SA de CV, Mexico City, has fully commissioned its long-planned Etileno XXI petrochemical complex in the Coatzacoalcos-Nanchital region of the Mexican state of Veracruz. Source: News

Upward movement in the US rig count halted for the week ended June 27, declining 3 units to 421 rigs working, indicates the latest data from Baker Hughes Inc. The overall count was weighed down by a 7-unit drop in oil-directed rigs. Source: News