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California court denies challenge to California's offsets program, challenge to carbon auction remains

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 4 2013

California's climate change initiative, AB 32, has weathered a few legal challenges over the past several months. Most recently a California court

Conventional and unconventional operators: know your rights re GHG reporting

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 25 2013

If you are a conventional or unconventional oil and gas operator in Pennsylvania, you have likely received a recent letter from DEP requiring, for the

AB 32 and offset basics

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 19 2012

To keep you updated on exciting developments in California’s groundbreaking Cap-and-Trade Program, this final Alert in a three-part series focuses on yet another important element of the carbon trading system: Offsets

AB 32 and GHG market and auction basics

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 3 2012

On August 30, 2012, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and about 150 market participants held a test auction for the purchase and sale of California carbon allowances (CCAs

California's AB 32 and cap and trade design basics

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 21 2012

California, the world’s fifth-largest economy and 18th in total carbon emissions if it were a separate country, is rapidly moving forward with the development of its cap and trade program scheduled to be implemented in 2013

USEPA's draft guidance for diesel fuel in hydraulic fracturing clarifies compliance with Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2012

Here's another environmental legal development we previewed at the beginning of the year

"Best practices" guidance released for Marcellus Shale operators

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 3 2012

In order to reduce liability for natural gas development, it is a given that companies "know the rules and make sure you comply with them."

USEPA's new air emission rules for oil and gas industry address some industry concerns but raise others

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 24 2012

On April 17, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promulgated the first-ever final regulation setting limits on air pollution from natural gas production aimed at reducing toxic air pollution from the natural-gas drilling process called fracking

USEPA withdraws range resources' imminent and substantial endangerment order in Fifth Circuit

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 3 2012

As we've discussed on the blog, in late 2010, homeowners who lived near drilling operations of Range Resources in Parker County, Texas, reported problems with their tap water, complaining that it was bubbling and even flammable

Sailing across the yard - Supreme Court corrects EPA compliance reviewability

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 23 2012

A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court recently held that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s order directing a homeowner to remove fill material from an area that EPA alleged included regulated wetlands was final, ripe, and immediately reviewable under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA