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Natural Gas

Invisible Network. A Million Miles of Pipeline. TIME Map by R.M. Chapin, Jr.

U.S. Natural Gas Pipeline Network, 2009

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Natural Gas

  • 1935

    Fearing the growth of monopolistic power by utility companies, Congress passes the Public Utility Holding Company Act (PUHCA). The Act limited utility companies to operations in one state under the supervision of state utility commissions, forced companie
  • 1938

    Concerned about the market power of utility companies. Congress passes the Natural Gas Act to give the Federal Power Commission the authority to regulate interstate natural gas sales. The Natural Gas Act begins a period of federal price controls for natur
  • 1954

    In Phillips Petroleum Co. vs. Wisconsin, the U.S. Supreme Court extends federal regulation of natural gas prices to the wellhead, meaning that interstate gas producers, and not just gas pipeline transporters, were subject to federal rate regulation.
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