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Helping Clients With Their Energy and Environmental Needs

Last week Williams Partners announced that it had agreed to acquire significant gathering assets in the Marcellus. "Williams...


Tags: Marcellus, Energy, Utica, Shale

By Greg Russell On March 24, 2012

New Air Emission Study

The Colorado School of Public Health has issued a new study concluding that air emissions from hydraulic fracturing operations "...


Tags: Marcellus, Energy, Utica, Shale

Governor Kasich proposed tax and fee increases for producers in Ohio last Wednesday during the start of the Ohio Oil and Gas...


Tags: Energy, Utica, Shale

The WSJ is reporting that Royal Dutch Shell PLC has chosen Pennsylvania as the new site for its ethane cracker: "The plant, known...


Tags: Marcellus, Energy, Utica, Shale

Governor Kasich recently issued Executive Order 2012-03K granting the Department of Commerce, Division of Industrial Compliance...


Tags: Energy, Utica, Processing

We've noted before the problems with a U.S. EPA study purporting to link groundwater contamination in Pavillion, WY to frac...


Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Energy, Environment

On March 9, 2012, the ODNR simultaneously announced (1) "new environmentally responsible standards for transporting and disposing...


Tags: Energy, Brine Disposal, Class II Injection Wells

New (Relatively) KY Oil Pipeline Spill Case

In Mid-Valley Pipeline Co. v. S.J. Louis Construction, Inc., the United States District Court for the Eastern District of...


Tags: Oil, Clean Water Act, Energy, Environment

The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that the Kasich Administration may be contemplating new taxes on the energy industry in Ohio...


Tags: Ohio, Energy, Utica

Helping clients with their energy and environmental needs

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