In July, the State of North Dakota filed suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging U.S. EPA’s final rule...
Tags: Clean Air Act, Methane Emissions, Energy, Environment
In its 2015 Oil and Gas Annual Report, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Production reported a record 4.6 trillion...
Tags: Marcellus Shale, Natural Gas Production, DEP, Energy,
In 2015, several minors living in Pennsylvania filed a climate change lawsuit in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania against...
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In a recent decision, Miller v. Cloud (July 22, 2016), Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals concluded that an estate intended...
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On June 28, 2016, Ohio Governor Kasich signed into law House Bill 390, which, among other matters, clarifies the status of...
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On June 27, 2016, the Pennsylvania House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee revived previously introduced legislation...
Tags: Oil and Gas, Energy, Minimum Royalties, Pennsylvania
On June 27, 2016 U.S. EPA finalized a regulation under the Clean Water Act that prohibits the discharge of wastewater from...
Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Clean Water Act, Energy, Environment
We previously wrote about the Bureau of Land Management’s attempt to regulate hydraulic fracturing on federal and Indian lands....
Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Oil and Gas, Energy
The Toxic Substances Control Act (“TSCA”) became law in 1976 with the objective of regulating chemicals in commerce that posed an...
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According to quarterly production data released by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, oil production in the state from...
Tags: 'Utica Shale', Ohio, Oil and Gas, Energy