Energy Roundup: OMA Comments on Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing

• The OMA has submitted comments to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, urging the agency to finalize the five-year program for offshore oil and gas leasing and to include the maximum number of offshore lease sales.
• The Ohio Consumers’ Counsel is urging the PUCO to revisit its recent order that temporarily halted four House Bill 6-related investigations tied to FirstEnergy.
• Gasoline prices have risen to around $4 a gallon throughout much of the upper Midwest.
• On Sept. 27, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) pulled the plug on his energy permitting reform bill after it faced opposition from within his own party. (Senators from both parties hope to pass a permitting bill yet this year, reports say.)
• The Tax Foundation has published this summary of the Inflation Reduction Act’s energy-related tax increases — including a methane fee and reinstated Superfund tax.

Meanwhile, this infographic illustrates China’s current dominance in the solar panel supply chain. 9/29/2022