The revision of the rule defining “waters of the United States” (“WOTUS”; the “Post-Sackett Rule”) has not resolved the...
Tags: Isolated Wetlands, WOTUS, Clean Water Act, USEPA,
On Friday, April 19, 2024, USEPA announced it will publish a final rule designating PFOS and PFOA as CERCLA hazardous substances...
On March 26, 2024, USEPA published a plan to collect nationwide data on per- and polyfluoralkyl substances (PFAS) that will be...
Tags: Clean Water Act, PFAS, USEPA
Tags: Horizontal Wells, Surface Use, severed minerals, Reasonable Use of Surface
UPDATE: US EPA codified the addition of seven PFAS to the Toxic Release Inventory, discussed below, on May 17, 2024. The action...
Tags: Environmental, PFAS, Environment, TRI,
Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals recently interpreted two reservations of non-participating royalty interests (NPRIs)...
Tags: Deed Interpretation, Royalties, Royalty, NPRI
Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals recently clarified when an oil and gas lease and a release of an oil and gas lease...
Tags: Ohio Marketable Title Act, MTA, "Oil and Gas Lease", Release,
On December 4, a coalition of eleven states and three industry groups filed a legal challenge to US EPA’s new Clean Water Act...
Tags: CWA, 401, WOTUS, Clean Water Act,
Recently, in Crum v. Mooney, 2023-Ohio-4451, Ohio’s Seventh Appellate District considered whether an 1898 assignment conveyed a...
Tags: "Oil and Gas Lease", Royalty
In a recent case, Crozier v. Pipe Creek Conservancy, L.L.C., 2023-Ohio-4297, Ohio’s Seventh Appellate District grappled with a...