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News bites: Obama, Romney soften in reach for center
EnergyBiz says President Obama’s coal criticisms and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s Environmental Protection Agency bashing will soften as the candidates aim for centrist voters.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio) stopped in Marietta, Ohio, to discuss how regulations are affecting the coal industry, notes The Marietta Times.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) responded to local officials who bemoaned the state’s natural-gas drilling rules, encouraging them to work with the state to design better ones, writes The Denver Post.
Oil firms are switching their field equipment from running on diesel fuel to natural gas, reports the Houston Chronicle.
The International Energy Agency said a massive July blackout that left more than 500 million people without power in India strengthens the need for electricity reform, according to UPI.
