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Frack supplier hit with overtime class action

  • Leonard, Street and Deinard
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 15 2013

Last week, a hydraulic fracturing equipment supplier was hit with a putative class action lawsuit in federal court in Pennsylvania, alleging

WRDA vote expected this week

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 6 2013

The Senate is expected to vote on S. 601, the Water Resources Development Act, the week of May 6. The bill, which was recently unanimously passed by

West, Texas tragedy puts industry at risk for greater oversight

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 1 2013

In the wake of the unfortunate fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas last week, the approximately forty other fertilizer plants and approximately

7th Circuit upholds MSHA's authority to request medical records to verify reported injury statistics

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 1 2013

Mine operators and employee interveners lost their joint appeal to U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals -- where the Court agreed with the

Offshore Oil and Gas Worker Whistleblower Protection Act of 2013 introduced into the House

  • Jackson Lewis LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 29 2013

Representative George Miller (D-CA) recently reintroduced a bill (H.R. 1649) that would provide whistleblower protections to certain workers in the

MSHA revises pattern of violation criteria

  • Ogletree Deakins
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 5 2013

Here is the good news: "MSHA acknowledgesthe majority of mine operators are conscientious about providing a safe and healthful work

MSHA's still making its POV list, but no longer checking it twice

  • Fisher & Phillips LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 1 2013

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) recently released a Final Rule that significantly changes the way the Agency charged with protecting

Court order: you shall not start your new job at that oil company because we're worried about irreparable harm to the oil company you just quit

  • Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 13 2013

Engineer Milos Milosevic may have thought that he and Schlumberger Technology Corporation were like oil and water when he recently left Schlumberger

MSHA inspection failures may spur increases to inspection activities

  • Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 12 2013

Two recent news items shine a spotlight on MSHA, its inspection corps, and several publicly acknowledged inspection failures. On February 5, 2013

MSHA pattern of violations rule makes it easier to shut down mines

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 18 2013

The Mine Safety and Health Administration has just announced the revision of its final pattern of violations (POV) rule, which makes it easier for the