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Effective October 15, 2012, owners or operators of hydraulically fractured natural gas wells must notify USEPA prior to...


Tags: NSPS, Environment

Court Decision on Cross-State Air Pollution Rule

Yesterday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down USEPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (“CSAPR”) in EME Homer City...


Tags: Environment

Vorys Attorneys Settle $11M CERCLA Case for GE Against US

Vorys attorneys were the subject of a LAW360 story entitled "GE to Get $11M From US In CERCLA Settlement." The settlement also...


Tags: Environment

Yesterday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld USEPA’s green house gas (GHG) regulations and its endangerment finding that...


Tags: oil and gas midstream facilities, Greenhouse Gas, BACT, Environment

Yesterday, Governor Kasich signed Ohio S.B. 294 into law. It will become effective within 90 days. Under the bill, amendments...


Tags: Isolated Wetlands, Environment

Yesterday, Governor Kasich signed HB 473. The law, intended to comply with the 2005 Great Lakes Compact, imposes new permit...


Tags: Environment

New Clean Air Act Citizen Suit Ruling

On May 25, 2012, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in Sierra Club, et al. v. Korleski in which the court...


Tags: Clean Air Act, Citizen Suit, Environment

Today the ODNR's Division of Oil and Gas Resource Management submitted its long expected Well Construction Package to the Ohio...


Tags: well construction, Energy

The Congressional Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure announced today that H.R. 4965 was introduced to "prohibit the...


Tags: Clean Water Act, Environment

Today USEPA issued its final rules that provide New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for volatile organic compounds (VOC) and...


Tags: Clean Air Act, Green, Completions, Environment

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