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In a recent case, Crozier v. Pipe Creek Conservancy, L.L.C., 2023-Ohio-4297, Ohio’s Seventh Appellate District grappled with a...


Tags: Ohio Marketable Title Act, Marketable Title Act

USEPA issues new 401 Water Quality Certification Rule

On September 14, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA ) released a pre-publication version of the Clean Water...


Tags: CWA, 401, WOTUS, Clean Water Act,

By: Kristin Watt, Kristin Woeste, Trevor Burba, and Brooke Zentmeyer

On July 12, 2023, USEPA released a Pre-Publication Notice of...


Tags: Environmental, proposed rule, Lead-based paint, USEPA

On Friday, June 23, USEPA published a final rule that will add nine new PFAS to the Toxics Release Inventory (“TRI”), the list of...


Tags: EPCRA, Environmental, TRI, USEPA

On July 3, 2023, Governor DeWine signed Ohio’s biennial budget legislation for FY2024-2025, House Bill 33, into law, which...


Tags: Brownfields, HB 33

U.S. Supreme Court limits federal jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act

In a highly anticipated opinion, the United States Supreme Court narrowed the scope of waters and wetlands considered to be...


Tags: WOTUS, Clean Water Act, U.S. Supreme Court

Re-notification required for Ohio's General Permit for Construction Stormwater Discharges

The Ohio General Permit for Stormwater Discharges from Small and Large Construction Activities (Ohio EPA Permit No. OHC000005)...


Tags: Stormwater, Clean Water Act, construction, OEPA

The United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio recently addressed whether a mineral owner could assert a...


Tags: Utica, Subsurface Mineral Trespass, Point Pleasant

Reminder to all Ohio oil and gas land professionals:  Your registration will expire on Sunday, April 30, 2023.


Tags: "Oil and Gas" Utica, Division of Oil and Gas Resource Management, Land Professional Registration

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