The importance of watching for and properly preserving issues for appeal cannot be understated. This is especially true in high stakes cases involving significant exposure or those having significant precedential value where...more
On May 12, 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final rules establishing – for the first time – limits on methane emissions. In addition to creating the new methane emissions standards, the amendments...more
Mississippi State University received national attention on the football field this year. Amy Champagne recently sat down with Baker Donelson Alum Joan Lucas, the General Counsel of Mississippi State University, to talk about...more
On Monday, June 30, the highest courts in both New York and Colorado confirmed local municipalities' rights to regulate land use within their jurisdictions. The New York State Court of Appeals upheld two towns' bans on shale...more
Mississippi's Statewide Rule 13, addressing blowout preventers, currently states that, "[i]n drilling areas where high pressures are likely to exist and on all wildcat wells, all proper and necessary precautions shall be...more
Governors Phil Bryant and Robert Bentley recently announced in remarks before the Southern States Energy Board that they had signed a memorandum of understanding, jointly commissioning a comprehensive study of Mississippi and...more