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 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
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…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 12 Apr 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…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 12 Apr 2013
The Alaska Supreme Court has rejected claims by environmentalists and Native American groups that the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 29 Mar 2013
A federal court in Ohio has denied a motion for judgment on the pleadings filed by the defendant in a cost-recovery action under the Comprehensive…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 29 Mar 2013
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down two "interpretive" U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) letters relating to wastewater…