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Court rejects challenge to New York zoning law prohibiting oil-and-gas exploration

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 10 2013

A New York Appellate Division has upheld a trial court's determination sustaining a local zoning ordinance that effectively banned oil-and-gas

Federal court reaffirms summary judgment in NORM case

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 5 2013

A federal court recently reaffirmed its prior ruling that a plaintiff's expert failed to establish causation in a suit alleging increased risk of

Sixth Circuit invalidates Corps surface mine general permit

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 3 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

Steam power plant effluent guidelines move forward

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 3 2013

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed a proposed rulemaking on April 19, 2013, to revise technology-based effluent limitations and

Iowa court says solar power company not a public utility

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 26 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

BLM required to consider hydraulic-fracturing impacts when selling oil-and-gas leases

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 19 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

Ninth Circuit extinguishes water and waste claims for utility poles

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 19 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

Alaska Supreme Court weighs in on oil and gas planning

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 12 2013

The Alaska Supreme Court has rejected claims by environmentalists and Native American groups that the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is

Federal Circuit holds energy department to nuclear waste contracts

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 12 2013

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) could not avoid the consequences of breaching its contracts

Arizona District Court upholds mining ban near Grand Canyon

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 29 2013

A federal court in Arizona has denied a motion to reverse a U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) decision to withdraw more than a million acres in