In its 2015 Oil and Gas Annual Report, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Production reported a record 4.6 trillion...
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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...
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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....
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According to quarterly production data released by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, oil production in the state from...
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On May 31, 2016, The U.S. Supreme Court held that Clean Water Act jurisdictional determinations by the Army Corps of Engineers...
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On the same day that U.S. EPA finalized amendments to the New Source Performance Standards for the oil and gas industry (click ...
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