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By Mac Taylor On April 9, 2020

USEPA Releases Draft Guidance which would allow additional construction activities in advance of obtaining a pre-construction permit

On March 25, 2020, USEPA released draft guidance regarding its interpretation of “begin actual construction” under the...


Tags: Environment

By Mac Taylor On March 27, 2020

New USEPA COVID-19 Enforcement Guidance Issued (Plus Similar State Policies Being Announced)

As an update to our previous post regarding COVID-19 and environmental compliance, new developments at the state and federal...


Tags: Environment

Thinking about delaying environmental compliance due to COVID-19? Think carefully!
By Mac Taylor On March 23, 2020

Thinking about delaying environmental compliance due to COVID-19? Think carefully!

As businesses across the United States confront the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Vorys environmental team is...


Tags: Environment

By Jake Bartlett On February 19, 2020

Proposed Amendments to NEPA Regulations

As discussed in an earlier post, found here, the Council of Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) recently published proposed amendments...


Tags: NEPA, Energy, Environment

By Ilya Batikov On January 23, 2020

PA Supreme Court Holds the Rule of Capture Applies to Hydraulic Fracturing Operations

On January 22, 2020, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decided Briggs v. Southwestern Energy Prod. Co.  The issue before the Court...


Tags: Rule of Capture, Marcellus Shale, Hydraulic Fracturing, Oil and Gas,

By Jay Carr On January 21, 2020

Supreme Court of Ohio to Determine Whether the Ohio Dormant Mineral Act Supersedes the Ohio Marketable Title Act as to Severed Oil and Gas Interests

On January 21, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio accepted an appeal from the Seventh District Court of Appeals’ decision in West v....


Tags: OMTA, Dormant Mineral Act, DMA, Marketable Title Act,

By Jake Bartlett On January 15, 2020

Proposed regulatory amendments published for the National Environmental Policy Act

The Council for Environmental Quality recently published proposed amendments to update the procedural regulations used to...


Tags: NEPA, Energy, Environment

By Jay Carr On December 16, 2019

Lessor Notice is Required in Certain Circumstances to Forfeit a Lease for Breach of the Implied Covenant of Reasonable Development

In Pavsek v. Wade, 18 MO 0024, Ohio's Seventh District Court of Appeals considered whether a lessor must serve notice upon its...


Tags: 'Utica Shale', Implied Covenants, Breach, Forfeiture,

By Ryan Elliott On December 2, 2019

U.S. EPA Redesignates Ohio Portion of Stubenville OH-WV SO2 Nonattainment Area

On November 29,2019, U.S. EPA issued a final rule redesignating the Ohio portion of the Stubenville Ohio-West Virginia...


Tags: Clean Air Act, NAAQS, Environment, Attainment

By Mac Taylor On December 2, 2019

New USEPA Title V and NSR Guidance: “Adjacent” does actually mean “Adjacent”

On November 26, 2019, USEPA published a guidance memorandum “Interpreting ‘Adjacent’ for New Source Review and Title V Source...


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Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP provides business and legal counsel to clients throughout the United States and around the world. Since its founding in 1909, our firm has grown into one of the largest law firms in the country, with nearly 375 attorneys who are located in 10 offices in Ohio, Washington, D.C., Texas, Pennsylvania, California, London and Berlin.

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