Helping Clients With Their Energy and Environmental Needs
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL LAW BLOG

Helping Clients With Their Energy and Environmental Needs

By Kristin Watt On July 13, 2011

House Will Consider Bill to Rein in EPA to "Restore Balanced Federal-State Regulatory Partnership"

We all will likely be reading and hearing more about a US House Bill (H.R. 2018) coming before the full House for a vote - the...


Tags: Clean Water Act, Environment

By Kristin Watt On July 12, 2011

New ASTM Standard Related to Continuing Obligations for Contaminated Properties

ASTM has issued a new standard dealing with Continuing Obligations for contaminated properties -- what to do after a Phase 1...


Tags: Environment

Changes Coming to Hazardous Waste Exemption for Recyclables
By Kristin Watt On July 11, 2011

Changes Coming to Hazardous Waste Exemption for Recyclables

USEPA has announced that it will revoke part of a Bush era RCRA hazardous waste exemption for recyclables. If you took advantage...


Tags: Environment, RCRA

By Greg Russell On July 11, 2011

Ohio: Wastewater Disposal

The Wheeling Intelligencer has a free-market/regulatory success story for Ohio taxpayers (resulting in large part from...


Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Marcellus, Energy, Utica

By Greg Russell On July 9, 2011

Go Ohio!

Ohio ranks in the top 10 of most attractive places for oil and gas investment worldwide according to a Calgary-based global...


Tags: Energy

By Greg Russell On July 9, 2011

Ohio: State Land Leasing

Ohio has created an Oil and Gas Leasing Commission to encourage the productive development of state lands. Among other things:...


Tags: Energy

By Greg Russell On July 3, 2011

The Possibilities

The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting on the possibilities a shale gas revolution can bring to the state: For example, "Power...


Tags: Marcellus, Energy, Utica, Shale

By Greg Russell On July 3, 2011

Ohio Conservation Laws Amended

Ohio's Governor Kasich signed Amended Substitute House Bill Number 153 (HB 153) on Thursday amending several significant...


Tags: Energy

By Greg Russell On July 3, 2011

NY Preliminary Revised Draft SGEIS

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NY DEC) has released a series of documents related to its Preliminary...


Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Marcellus, Energy, Environment,

By Greg Russell On June 30, 2011

NYT: This Must Hurt

This has got to hurt. After all of the efforts by one of its reporters to mischaracterize hydraulic fracturing as an...


Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Marcellus, Energy, Environment,

VIEW MORE

Helping clients with their energy and environmental needs

You can expect to find news and breaking legal developments involving the crude oil and natural gas industries, alternative and renewable energy resources, and the latest environmental issues.

Vorys Energy and Environmental Services

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.

Read more