The Chicago Tribune has an article reporting on recent test results showing that groundwater contamination claims are linked to...
Tags: Marcellus, Energy, Environment, Utica,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a draft guidance document to be used when "permitting the underground...
Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Energy, Environment
The Congressional Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure announced today that H.R. 4965 was introduced to "prohibit the...
Tags: Clean Water Act, Environment
This is interesting. The Minot Daily News is reporting that there is opposition to the application of hydraulic fracturing...
Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Energy, Environment
Today USEPA issued its final rules that provide New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for volatile organic compounds (VOC) and...
Tags: Clean Air Act, Green, Completions, Environment
The USEPA announced that it is again delaying the issuance of its proposed rules regulating air emissions from hydraulically...
Tags: NSPS, Hydraulic Fracturing, Air, Clean,
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently vacated U.S. EPA's disapproval of Texas' statewide...
Tags: Environment
We've mentioned before the trouble U.S. EPA has had in blaming Range Resources for alleged natural gas contamination, based on...
Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Energy, Environment
U.S. EPA has proposed new standards for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new power plants. See here (press release) and here...
Tags: Energy, Environment, GHG
Today the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously (with two concurring decisions) decided Sackett v. EPA - a case that everyone in the...