On March 18, 2015, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced that those engaged in crude petroleum and...
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On April 7, 2015, USEPA proposed a zero discharge Clean Water Act pretreatment standard for wastewater from existing or new...
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On April 8, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio accepted review of Taylor v. Crosby, a case involving the 1989 version of the Ohio...
From the Akron Beacon Journal:
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On March 30, 2015, the Seventh District Court of Appeals decided Kenney v. Chesapeake Appalachia, L.L.C., 7th Dist. Columbiana...
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On March 24, 2015, the Ohio Supreme Court decided the Fairfield County v. Nally (former Ohio EPA Director) case. This was a...
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As we noted in a prior post, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management has been...
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On March 20, 2015, the U.S. Department of the Interior released the final rule governing hydraulic fracturing on public and...
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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection "is proposing to create a task...
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EIA's March Drilling Productivity Report estimates modest growth in Utica Shale production through April 2015. The report...
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