Planners consider gas station minimart (Marin Independent Journal)

The Planning Commission will review plans for a minimart at a gas station near Town Center at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. The meeting is at 300 Tamalpais Drive.

Gas blast levels three homes in Allentown (The Morning Call)

Four families are displaced but because some were warned by odor, they escaped without serious injury. Residents of a south Allentown neighborhood scrambled for their lives Saturday afternoon as blasts leveled three homes and caused $1 million in damage in the city`s worst natural gas explosion in more than a decade.

Pipe key in gas blast (Star-Gazette)

One year after natural gas explosion destroys Horseheads home, answers still sought.

Greenhouse gas reduction goal-setting continues for City (KSHB-TV Kansas City)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The City of Kansas City, Mo., Climate Protection Plan steering committee`s four work groups soon will meet for the first time to begin their development of recommendations for greenhouse gas reduction measures.

Congress permanently bans new oil and gas leases on Rocky Mountain Front (Great Falls Tribune)

WASHINGTON — A permanent ban on oil, gas and mineral exploration along Montana`s Rocky Mountain Front was included in a last-minute package of tax breaks and other legislation that cleared Congress early Saturday.

Opponents share concerns at gas-pipeline forum (The Mail Tribune)

Citing concerns about potential risks, property devaluation and long-term effects, about 50 people gathered Saturday at the Central Library in Medford in opposition to the construction of a controversial 223-mile gas pipeline from Coos Bay to the lower Klamath Basin.

Gas blasts level 3 houses (Deseret Morning News)

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (MCT) Natural gas explosions in Allentown on Saturday leveled three homes, likely destroyed another and caused $1 million in damage.

Congress OKs oil and gas drilling in millions more acres in Gulf (The Plain Dealer)

Washington- Congress approved expanded offshore drilling in its final hours, giving energy companies access to oil and natural gas deposits in a vast area once off-limits in the Gulf of Mexico.

Police: Men Rob Gas Station Near Police Headquarters (WRTV TheIndyChannel.com via Yahoo! News)

Police said three men targeted the wrong gas station when they tried to pull off a heist.