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News & Analysis as of May 21, 2013

State Common Law Carbon Dioxide Liability Claims: Premonitions of Preemption (and Dismissal)

by McCarter & English: Climate Change &... on 12/1/2012

Left open by the Supreme Court’s decision in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, 131 S. Ct. 2527 (2011), was the question of whether state law nuisance claims for the emission of carbon dioxide were viable in the...more

D.C. Circuit Rebuffs Challenges to EPA’s Climate Change Regulations

by Morrison & Foerster LLP on 6/27/2012

In considering the most serious efforts to date to invalidate the federal climate change regulations, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously upheld several of EPA’s Clean Air Act greenhouse gas (GHG)...more

Pennsylvania Passes Comprehensive Amendments to Oil and Gas Laws

by Morgan Lewis on 2/15/2012

On February 13, Governor Tom Corbett signed House Bill 1950, amending Title 58 (Oil and Gas) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes. This legislation, most of which will become effective on April 13, imposes a drilling...more

Pennsylvania’s Oil and Gas Act Amended to Require "Uniformity" with Respect to Municipal Ordinances Regulating Oil and Gas...

by K&L Gates LLP on 2/9/2012

On February 8, 2012, the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed House Bill 1950, which makes a series of reforms to the Commonwealth’s Oil and Gas Act, 58 P.S. §§ 601.101 et seq. Among the reforms to the Act...more