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By Greg Russell On August 6, 2011

Shale Hit Piece Illustrates Classic Problems of Anonymous Sourcing

So says the NYT public editor about yet another NYT article on the dangers associated with U.S. shale production: "In the article...


Tags: Energy, Environment

By Greg Russell On July 18, 2011

Fort Worth Air Study

We've reported previously on studies of air emissions from natural gas sites in the Fort Worth, TX, area (see here, e.g.).The...


Tags: Energy, Air Quality, Environment

By Kristin Watt On July 13, 2011

House Will Consider Bill to Rein in EPA to "Restore Balanced Federal-State Regulatory Partnership"

We all will likely be reading and hearing more about a US House Bill (H.R. 2018) coming before the full House for a vote - the...


Tags: Clean Water Act, Environment

By Kristin Watt On July 12, 2011

New ASTM Standard Related to Continuing Obligations for Contaminated Properties

ASTM has issued a new standard dealing with Continuing Obligations for contaminated properties -- what to do after a Phase 1...


Tags: Environment

Changes Coming to Hazardous Waste Exemption for Recyclables
By Kristin Watt On July 11, 2011

Changes Coming to Hazardous Waste Exemption for Recyclables

USEPA has announced that it will revoke part of a Bush era RCRA hazardous waste exemption for recyclables. If you took advantage...


Tags: Environment, RCRA

By Greg Russell On July 3, 2011

NY Preliminary Revised Draft SGEIS

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NY DEC) has released a series of documents related to its Preliminary...


Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Marcellus, Energy, Environment,

By Greg Russell On June 30, 2011

NYT: This Must Hurt

This has got to hurt. After all of the efforts by one of its reporters to mischaracterize hydraulic fracturing as an...


Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Marcellus, Energy, Environment,

Reason Video: Fracking
By Greg Russell On June 29, 2011

Reason Video: Fracking

With all of the negative media regarding hydraulic fracturing, we thought you might be interested in this video from reason.tv:


Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Marcellus, Energy, Environment,

By Greg Russell On June 28, 2011

BAMM Extension Proposed

U.S. EPA is proposing to extend certain time periods for using best available monitoring methods (BAMM) for Petroleum and Natural...


Tags: Energy, Environment, GHG

By Greg Russell On June 28, 2011

Navigable Water Guidance - Update

U.S. EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have published for comment a new guidance document that they intend to use to...


Tags: Energy, Environment

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Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP provides business and legal counsel to clients throughout the United States and around the world. Since its founding in 1909, our firm has grown into one of the largest law firms in the country, with nearly 375 attorneys who are located in nine offices in Ohio, Washington, D.C., Texas, Pennsylvania, California and London.

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