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Senate version of energy bill unveiled

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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May 14 2010

U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) have released the latest version of their energy bill

Coastal Zone Mgmt. Act: Fifth Circuit affirms dismissal of challenge to wind farm

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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July 2 2010

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a district court decision allowing the construction of a coastal wind farm to proceed without an environmental consistency review or public comment

Lawsuit alleges failure to remediate contamination at service stations

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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May 14 2010

Seeking $29 million in damages, three energy companies recently filed a lawsuit alleging that defendant breached contracts to remediate contamination at dozens of service stations in upstate New York

EPA proposes to regulate coal ash from coal-fired power plants

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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May 14 2010

EPA issued a proposed rule, May 3, 2010, that would regulate coal combustion residuals from coalfired power plants under RCRA, as either hazardous waste or non-hazardous waste

Reorganization: MMS to establish separate enforcement office

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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May 21 2010

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has announced that the department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS), which currently oversees offshore oil and gas drilling and collects an average of $13 billion a year in royalties, will be split into two separate offices

Air: Federal court rules EPA not required to block power plants

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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July 30 2010

A federal judge in the District of Columbia has ruled that the Clean Air Act (CAA) does not require EPA to stop the construction of three power plants in Kentucky

NEPA: conservation group sues MMS over alleged lax oversight of drilling operations

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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May 28 2010

Defenders of Wildlife has reportedly sued the Minerals Management Service (MMS) over an alleged failure to apply its own regulations on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and continued lax oversight of drilling operations

NEPA: Ninth Circuit allows drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi and Beaufort Seas

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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May 21 2010

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Minerals Management Service (MMS) properly approved plans for exploratory drilling in Alaska's Chukchi and Beaufort Seas by Shell Offshore Inc

Air: Oklahoma AG seeks EPA action against Texas power plants

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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May 28 2010

Oklahoma Attorney General (AG) W.A. Drew Edmondson (D) has sent a letter to EPA Region 6 Administrator Alfredo Armandariz requesting that EPA take enforcement or other action regarding several Texas coal-fired power plants that “have, at a minimum, the potential to adversely affect air quality in Oklahoma.”

California air board to require energy audits of large industrial facilities

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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August 6 2010

The California Air Resources Board (ARB), a department of CalEPA, has adopted a regulation that will require about 60 large industrial facilities in the state to analyze energy consumption and identify potential energy efficiency measures