On Friday, March 9, 2018, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice signed into law a state statute permitting the leasing of oil and...
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On February 15, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio denied an appeal of a mandamus action seeking to force ODNR to rescind temporary...
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In its February 2018 unpublished decision of Woodhouse Hunting Club, Inc. v. Hoyt, the Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld yet...
This post provides an important update to our January 22, 2018 entry. On January 31, 2018, U.S. EPA and the Army Corp finalized a...
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On January 30, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio rejected a constitutional challenge to a statutory unitization order issued by the...
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On January 22, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court held that lawsuits challenging the joint EPA-Army Corps rule defining “waters of the...
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In a January 3, 2018 decision, the Supreme Court of Ohio held that Ohio does not recognize an implied covenant to explore further...
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Yesterday, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection halted construction of Sunoco Logistic LP's Mariner East II...
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In Talbot v. Ward (2017-Ohio-9213), Ohio's Seventh District Court of Appeals found the Duhig rule “persuasive” in interpreting a...
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Over the last several weeks, Ohio courts issued a few decisions involving oil and gas issues that we wanted to briefly mention:
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