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Helping Clients With Their Energy and Environmental Needs

On April 16, 2026, father and son Thomas and Madison Woodward filed a complaint in the federal court for the Northern District of...


Tags: Moratorium, Marcellus, Oil and Gas, New York,

This past week, North Dakota Judge James Gion announced that he will sign an order requiring several Greenpeace entities to pay...


Tags: Pipeline, Oil and Gas, Energy, North Dakota,

Earlier this month, a unanimous Ohio Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the Ninth District Court of Appeals holding that the...


Tags: Public Utility, Supreme Court of Ohio, Natural Gas, PUCO,

In Ohio Environmental Council v. State of Ohio, Case No. 23-CV-002403, the court of common pleas of Franklin County, Ohio...


Tags: Oil and Gas, Energy, Oil & Gas Land Management Commission, State Land Leasing,

In Senterra Ltd. v. Winland, 2019-Ohio-4387, Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals held that an examiner, after identifying...


Tags: Supreme Court of Ohio, Ohio Marketable Title Act, Energy, Root of Title

This past week, in EOG Resources, Inc. v. Lucky Land Management, LLC, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 8738, the U.S. Court of Appeals for...


Tags: Horizontal Wells, Energy, Surface Use, Sixth Circuit Court,

Yesterday, in Save Ohio Parks v. Oil & Gas Land Mgt. Comm., 2025-Ohio-847, Ohio’s Tenth District Court of Appeals held that R.C....


Tags: State Lands, Energy, Ohio Oil and Gas Commission, Oil & Gas Land Management Commission

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated four pipeline-safety standards promulgated by...


Tags: Pipeline Safety, Energy, Safety Standard, U.S. Court of Appeals

In EOG Resources, Inc. v. Lucky Land Mgmt., LLC,[1] the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted a stay of...


Tags: Energy, Reasonable Use of Surface, Preliminary Injunction, Severed Mineral Interest

The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that “[w]hen the SEC seeks civil penalties against a defendant for securities fraud, the...


Tags: SEC, Energy, U.S. Supreme Court, Security Fraud

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.