Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 17 May 2013
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published for public comment a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) that assesses the potential direct…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 10 May 2013
A New York Appellate Division has upheld a trial court's determination sustaining a local zoning ordinance that effectively banned oil-and-gas…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 3 May 2013
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has invalidated the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (Corps') Clean Water Act (CWA) General Permit 21, covering…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 3 May 2013
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a revised rule on April 23, 2013, for the labeling of alternative fuels and the vehicles that use them. 78…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 3 May 2013
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed a proposed rulemaking on April 19, 2013, to revise technology-based effluent limitations and…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 26 Apr 2013
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has concluded that most states are meeting, and can be expected to continue meeting, their…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 26 Apr 2013
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have announced a five-year extension of their agreement to…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 26 Apr 2013
An Iowa state court recently overturned the state's Utility Board determination that a solar power systems vendor was a public utility when it set up…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 19 Apr 2013
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed a citizen suit claiming that Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and Pacific Bell Telephone Co. violated the…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 19 Apr 2013
A federal court in California has overturned a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) decision to issue leases for oil-and-gas exploration without analyzing…