Oil and Gas

Environmental Groups Sue EPA To Force Stricter Rules For Oil and Gas “Hazardous Waste”

Environmental Groups Sue EPA To Force Stricter Rules For “Hazardous Waste” …but EPA has already found that oil and gas waste doesn’t meet the standards of hazardous waste… A myriad of environmental groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to update its rules for oil and gas drilling waste disposal, stating that the […]

Join Us At The 2016 Mining & Land Resources Institute

2016 Mining and Land Resources Institute Event Details / Conference Website HERE. Event type: Conference Date: March 10th and 11th Speaker: Braiden Chadwick and Chris Powell Topic: 2015-2016 Mining and Public Lands Update Venue: Atlantis Casino Resort Spa Address: 3700 S Virginia St, Reno, NV 89502 Mitchell Chadwick LLP partner, G. Braiden Chadwick, will be speaking […]

Enviro Groups May Have Staged SUV Hitting Protester

Enviro Groups May Have Staged SUV Hitting Protester The Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) and Rainforest Action Network (RAN) submitted a letter to the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) Tuesday asking the agency to investigate a November 12, 2015, incident which occurred outside BLM’s Colorado headquarters in Lakewood. CBD and RAN, part of a larger […]

War On Energy: Democratic Senator Calls For Appliction of Racketeering Laws to Oil Companies

  Democratic Senator Calls for Application of Racketeering Laws to Oil Companies Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island), pictured above, and a cadre of prominent lawyers are pushing for oil companies to be held liable under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”), just as tobacco companies were in 2006. In 2006, and as affirmed […]

Department of Interior Releases Proposed Updates to Natural Gas Emissions Regs

Department of Interior Releases Proposed Updates to Natural Gas Emissions Regulations The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) released proposed updates to natural gas emissions regulations for oil and gas operations on Native American and public lands on Friday. The proposal, which focuses on limiting flaring at oil wells and venting from gas storage tanks, […]

Environmentalists Push for Moratorium on Oil and Gas Leasing

Environmentalists Push for Moratorium on Oil and Gas Leasing The Obama administration stopped the leasing of federally owned coal mining companies on January 15, pending the completion of a programmatic environmental impact statement analyzing how the decision making process factors in environmental and public health concerns. On Wednesday, WildEarth Guardians, an anti-coal activist group part […]

Cap and Trade? California Energy Companies Say: ‘Maybe’

California Energy Companies at Odds on Potential Use of Cap and Trade California energy companies are divided on the state’s plan to use its cap-and-trade program as its principle means of compliance with the U.S. EPA’s Clean Power Plan (“CPP”). The federal plan will require California to reduce its power-sector emissions about 13% below 2012 […]

Study: Unlocking America’s Energy Is The Best Economic Stimulus

Study: Unlocking America’s Energy Is The Best Economic Stimulus The Institute for Energy Research released a new study in December 2015 which considered the economic impacts of opening all federal lands and waters to oil and gas production. The report provides an update to a similar 2013 study in light of the current low price […]

Enviro Groups Sue Ventura County Over New Oil Wells

Enviro Groups Sue Ventura County Over New Oil Wells Los Padres ForestWatch, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Citizens for Responsible Oil and Gas filed a CEQA petition challenging Ventura County’s approval of 19 new oil wells near the Santa Paula Canyon Trail. The project garnered strong opposition from hikers and environmentalists. According to the […]

Senators Propose Banning All Energy Production on Federal Lands

Senators Introduce “Keep it in the Ground Act of 2015,” a Bill Proposing to Ban Leases for Oil and Gas Drilling on Federal Property Two U.S. Senators introduced a bill on November 4, 2015 that would have wide-reaching ramifications on mining, and domestic energy production on federal lands. Senators Bernie Sanders and Jeff Merkley introduced the […]

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