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EPA declines to create new air pollution control program for coal mines for now.

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
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USA
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May 16 2013

By letter dated April 30, 2013, EPA Acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe denied a petition filed by the Sierra Club and other groups, seeking to have

Coal ash regulations: EPA speaks - sort of...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
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USA
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May 7 2010

On Tuesday May 4, 2010, EPA started the process of federal regulation over the disposal and storage of coal combustion residuals, commonly referred to as coal ash

How the EPA aims to kill coal

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
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USA
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April 11 2012

A case can be made, upon reviewing the full sweep of President Barack Obama’s first term, that the Administration’s top priority has not been health care, the Iranian nuclear program or economic recovery

EPA issues final rule targeting air emissions from oil and gas operations

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
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USA
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April 25 2012

On April 17, 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued final air emission standards for oil and natural gas operations

The continuing evolution in mine permitting: EPA's war against coal reaches new heights

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
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USA
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February 22 2011

Elections, we have been told, have consequences

W.Va. Supreme Court affirms award of attorneys’ fees and expenses against WVDEP in surface mine board appeals

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
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USA
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October 30 2012

By a per curiam (“for the Court”) decision issued on October 19, 2012, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (“WVDEP”) is obligated to pay the Hominy Creek Preservation Association (“HCPA”) more than $300,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs incurred in connection with two consolidated appeals brought before the West Virginia Surface Mine Board

Double jeopardy? Citizen suit may proceed despite government enforcement action

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
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USA
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September 2 2009

A Clean Water Act citizen suit may proceed against a coal operator notwithstanding government enforcement action addressing the same alleged violations, according to a federal district judge in West Virginia

EPA releases notice of data availability regarding forthcoming UIC rules for CO2 injection wells

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
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USA
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September 2 2009

EPA recently released a pre-publication version of a Notice of Data Availability and Request for Comments ("Notice") pertaining to its proposed regulatory amendments to the Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program that would establish a new class of wells (Class VI), pursuant to its authority under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act

Carbon capture and storage: cornerstone of a sound energy policy

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
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USA
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January 12 2009

Unless we are all prepared to quit breathing, we are not going to put an end to all emissions of carbon dioxide

West Virginia Supreme Court reverses trial court rulings, reinstates flood litigation cases

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
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USA
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July 24 2008

On June 26, 2007, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals issued a per curiam decision in the Mass Litigation Proceeding known as In Re: Flood Litigation (Civ. Action No. 02-C-797, Raleigh County Circuit Court), reversing separate rulings issued by Circuit Court Judges Recht and Hutchison that would have substantially limited plaintiffs' ability to go forward with such claims

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