Penn Virginia Resource Partners L.P. (PVR), through its midstream division PVR Midstream, has agreed to construct and operate gas gathering pipelines and compression facilities for a private firm in the Marcellus Shale of northern Pennsylvania.

Under the agreement, PVR Midstream will construct 12-inch gathering pipeline and compression facilities with 25 million cubic feet (MMcf) per day of throughput capacity for the firm's natural gas production in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania.

PVR Midstream's 2010 capital investment in this system is anticipated to range from $6 to $7 million, with potential future system extensions costing up to $10 million. This system is expected to become operational during the second quarter of 2010.

PVR Midstream expects the project to generate fee-based revenue and to be accretive to distributable cash flow by the third quarter of 2010.

Last week, PBR Midstream entered into a similar agreement to construct and operate gas gathering pipelines and compression facilities for

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This morning, speaking before thousands at the Patriot Center in Virginia, the President was perhaps even more passionate about finishing the job on health reform than any time in this year-long debate.  It’s probably best to let him speak for himself, so read the full transcript for yourself or a few excerpts below:

Setting the stage:

THE PRESIDENT:  A few miles from here, Congress is in the final stages of a fateful debate about the future of health insurance in America.  (Applause.)  It’s a debate that’s raged not just for the past year but for the past century.  One thing when you’re in the White House, you’ve got a lot of history books around you.  (Laughter.)  And so I’ve been reading up on the history here.  Teddy Roosevelt, Republican, was the first to advocate that everybody get

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THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, George Mason!  (Applause.)  How’s everybody doing today?  (Applause.)  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you. 

AUDIENCE:  Yes we can!  Yes we can!  Yes we can!  Yes we can!

THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you, everybody.  It’s good to be back with some real Patriots.  (Applause.)  I want to thank Dr. Alan Merten, the President of George Mason University, and his family.  (Applause.)  Dr. Shirley Travis, who’s here — thank you.  And Coach Larranaga, we were just talking a little bit about — (applause) — looking forward to picking George Mason in my bracket next year.  (Applause.)

AUDIENCE MEMBER:  We love you!

THE PRESIDENT:  I love you!  (Applause.)  I don’t know if some of you remember, but I visited this university about three years ago for the first time.  (Applause.)  This was at just the dawn of my presidential campaign.  It was about three weeks old, I think.  We didn’t have

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32,000,000 — that’s the number of Americans who will get health insurance under the President’s plan. [Source: Congressional Budget Office] That’s also a little more than the populations of Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky and Arizona — COMBINED. [Source: U.S. Census Bureau]

Over the course of our ‘Health Reform by the Numbers’ online series, we’ve highlighted many of the problems of our broken health care system to raise awareness about why we just can’t wait any longer for reform:

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For the last number in the series – we wanted to showcase what you get from health insurance reform:

It expands health insurance coverage to 32 million Americans, guaranteeing that 95% of Americans will be

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Arch Coal Inc. (ACI) announced that it has bid successfully for a state coal lease in Montana. The company made a one-time bonus bid of $85.8 million, payable in April 2010, for the right to mine about 8,300 acres of state-owned minerals in the Otter Creek Tracts in southeastern Montana.   Arch now controls approximately 1.5 billion tons of coal in Montana's Otter Creek area, including previous reserve additions such as the coal lease secured in November 2009 through Great Northern Properties Limited.   Arch has a significant amount of reserves and is one of the top three producers in the Powder River Basin (PRB). Through this lease, the company is seeking to strengthen its operations in the PRB coal fields. The combined Otter Creek coal reserves are perceived as a strategic ...

The Medicines Company (MDCO) received a much needed breather recently in the form of a favorable order issued by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in the company's lawsuit against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.   The Medicines Company is seeking to extend the term of its principal US patent for its lead product, Angiomax, which is scheduled to expire on March 23, 2010 (September 23, 2010 including six-month pediatric exclusivity).   Although The Medicines Company filed for Hatch-Watchman exclusivity in 2001, the patent extension request was filed a day late due to confusion related to the approval date for Angiomax. Since then, The Medicines Company has been petitioning the PTO to accept the late filing which was due to "unintentional circumstances." The PTO has already rejected ...

Massey Energy Company (MEE) has agreed to purchase Cumberland Resources Corporation and its affiliated companies for $960 million.   Cumberland is one of the largest privately held coal producers in the United States, with 2009 revenue of $550 million generated from the production and sale of 7.8 million tons of high quality Central Appalachian coal.   Approximately half of the 416 million tons of reserves of the company in Virginia and Kentucky can be used as metallurgical coal, a key ingredient in making steel. Massey will acquire Cumberland free of debt.   Massey expects Cumberland to be a good fit for its strategy of capitalizing on growing Asian demand for higher-priced metallurgical coal. The company’s strategy centers on high-value metallurgical coal and demand in Asia, and ...

Though a silver bullet has yet to be found, five states–Oregon, Virginia, Minnesota, New York and Colorado–so far have taken advantage of federal grants to explore a new approach to making health insurance more affordable for some residents. “Three-share” programs, as they’re called, simply divide premiums among three entities: patients, employers and the community.

The Gold Dust Saloon in Pueblo, Colo., is one restaurant forking over its third, in a move that offers health insurance to its cooks and wait staff for the first time in the 25 years it’s been in business. Two local hospitals pay the community portion of the $180 premium for Gold Dust and 29 other small businesses in the county. Health Access Pueblo, launched in August 2008, doesn’t offer insurance, avoiding the state’s minimum benefit rules. Rather, 200 local doctors and two hospitals accept reduced rates.

Other three-share programs exist in Muskegon County, Mich., and Duval County, Fla.; but due

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Today, we released The Good Haul, a report that highlights how clean freight innovations improve reliability, while also reducing freight-related health and environmental risks.

The U.S. freight system needs to be modernized in a way that reduces environmental impacts. The Good Haul [PDF] profiles 28 projects, programs, and technologies around the U.S. and internationally that do just that. That is, they have simultaneously increased freight reliability while lowering air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

These cases studies include practice changes, like eco-driving, as well as new technologies, like the Port of Virginia’s hybrid diesel locomotive. The case studies also include large, planned freight hub clean up projects, such as the CREATE program in Chicago and the Clean Air Action Plan at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

None of the projects highlighted in The Good Haul are industry standards or have been adopted

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Arch Coal Inc. (ACI) that it purchased 35% equity interest in a Texas power plant as part of its ongoing pursuit of technology meant to reduce damaging greenhouse gas emissions. The Trailblazer Energy Center near Sweetwater, Texas is being developed by Tenaska Inc.  Arch's investment will be staged over time as the development of the project reaches key milestones. The fossil-fuel based Trailblazer plant is expected to be among the world’s cleanest power plants. The plant will act as a strategic source of carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications in West Texas. Moreover, Trailblazer will supply the Texas economy with an additional 600 megawatts of clean, secure, reliable electric generating capacity. In capturing 85% to 90% of the carbon dioxide emissions from the plant, Trailblazer will emit 70% less carbon dioxide than the cleanest natural gas-based power plants.  Moreover, Trailblazer will ship the captured ...