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Fracking is a non-technical term for Hydraulic Fracturing. Fracking or Hydraulic Fracturing is a method for retrieving, otherwise inaccessible, natural gas and petroleum by injecting pressurized fluid and chemicals into underground rock causing fissures. The fissures widen and expand allowing petroleum and gas to escape and flow to areas where it can be retrieved. less -

For ESG Investors, ‘Clean Fracs’ Could Mitigate Environmental Impacts

Opportune LLP on 4/21/2021

As regulatory requirements and ESG reporting and transparency increase to address gas flaring, “clean fracs” could be one solution for upstream oil and gas companies towards an energy transition....more

More Evidence About Methane Emissions From Fracking

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law on 5/18/2020

Earlier this month, I reported on a study showing that methane emissions from Permian Basin fracking operations were quite high. Since that study acknowledged that there are reasons to think that methane emissions from the...more

Reducing Methane and CO2 from Oil and Gas Operations

Gray Reed on 11/14/2019

Reports on the inevitable death of the fossil fuel industry are overdone (assuming it isn’t kidnapped in the middle of the night by the next administration and murdered by litigation, regulation and executive fiat). ...more

Another Bid is in on the Green New Deal

Gray Reed on 8/30/2019

Recall a recent post about the bidding war among presidential aspirants as they battle to see whose climate agenda will appease the left wing of the left wing of the Democratic Party. If that weren’t enough, Comrade Bernie...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - May 2019

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 5/7/2019

Property Owners Along Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline in Lancaster County Get Another Round of Letters "The letters issued notice of intent to file liens if MacAllister didn't receive timely payment of about $1.02 million it...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - October 2018

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 10/5/2018

China's Provinces are Secretly Building Coal Plants in Defiance of the National Government - "CoalSwarm, a global network of researchers tracking fossil-fuel infrastructure, analyzed satellite imagery as of July 2018, and...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - September 2018 #2

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 9/14/2018

As Storm Looms, 4th Circuit Reverses Ruling Against Dominion on Coal Ash Pollution at Chesapeake Site - "Water pollution from a coal ash landfill and settling ponds at a closed power plant in Chesapeake is not a violation of...more

Trump Administration Rolls Back Climate Change Initiatives

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/30/2018

As expected, the Trump administration has been actively engaged in efforts to reverse the federal government’s regulatory direction with respect to climate change. In 2017, President Donald Trump announced plans to withdraw...more

What’s New in the Methane Debate?

Gray Reed on 10/3/2017

Occasionally we visit issues larger than one-off courthouse decisions. Here are a few selected stories on the extent to which fracking contributes to rising levels of methane and, maybe, to climate change. There are...more

Energy Technology Connections Newsletter - Your Law Firm Link to Industry News: March 2017

Mintz on 4/1/2017

Our March edition of Energy Technology Connections brings you recent industry highlights and features a list of upcoming energy industry events throughout the nation. If you enjoy learning about new technology as much as we...more

Two Bureau of Land Management Regulations on Life Support Under President Trump

Jones Day on 3/25/2017

The Trump Administration has signaled its intent to pull the plug on two rules issued by the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") in 2015 and 2016. Legal and legislative developments over the next...more

Post-Election Update 2016

Bracewell LLP on 11/14/2016

The 2016 election results have significant implications for companies across a wide range of industry sectors. From environmental policy to financial services to tax reform, President-elect Trump has committed to sweeping...more

Congressional Energy Roundup

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 9/13/2016

Fracking Insider Readers: Below, please find this week’s Congressional activity on oil and gas issues: - House: - “H.R. 5780, the Utah Public Lands Initiative Act.” Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on...more

EPA Doubles Down with Expansive New Methane Regulation

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 6/17/2016

The Obama administration took two major steps in implementing its comprehensive climate change strategy this month, setting first-ever methane emissions standards for new, reconstructed and modified sources and simultaneously...more

EPA Doubles Down on Methane Regulation for Oil and Gas Industry

Ballard Spahr LLP on 5/16/2016

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a packet of measures targeting methane emissions from operations of the oil and gas industry on May 12, 2016. These measures include three final regulations affecting...more

New Final EPA Methane Emission Standards for the Oil and Gas Standard are Stricter Than Proposed

Stinson LLP on 5/16/2016

The Obama administration today issued its highly anticipated limits on methane emissions from oil and gas wells that are even tougher than those it proposed last year. It is estimated that the costs to comply will be at least...more

Air Quality Regulation of Oil and Gas Development: Hydraulic Fracturing Leads to Evolving and New State and Federal Standards, and...

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner on 1/20/2016

I. Introduction - Over the past several years, oil and gas production and related midstream activities in the several regions of the United States - - including Texas, the Intermountain West, North Dakota, and...more

Energy Insights: An Update from the Third Quarter of 2015

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 10/19/2015

In this edition of Seyfarth Shaw’s Energy Insights Newsletter our Energy and Clean Technologies team covers important developments in Q3 2015 for the energy industry including 1) the latest initiatives from the Environmental...more

EPA Publishes Regulatory Proposals that Would Further Curb Methane and VOC Emissions from the Oil and Gas Sector

K&L Gates LLP on 9/21/2015

On August 18, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed a suite of regulatory actions aimed at reducing methane and volatile organic compound (“VOC”) emissions from the oil and gas sector....more

Energy & Environment Update - August 2015 #3

Mintz - ML Strategies on 9/2/2015

Energy and Climate Debate - Congress returns from the August recess after the Labor Day holiday next week, and the in the meantime, energy and environment issues continue to play a significant role on the national and...more

U.S. EPA Proposes Methane Limits for Oil and Gas Industry

Robinson & Cole LLP on 8/25/2015

On August 18, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed rules to limit emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas (GHG), from certain new and modified facilities in the oil and natural gas industry. The...more

California Environmental Law & Policy Update - August 2015 #3

Allen Matkins on 8/24/2015

Environmental and Policy Focus: Clean Water Act rule faces challenges from both sides - Courthouse News Service - Aug 18: A widely publicized new rule clarifying the definition of ’waters of the United States’ under the...more

EPA Launches Proposed Measures to Cut Methane and VOC Emissions from Oil & Gas Industry: Agency Clarifies Permitting Requirements...

Stinson LLP on 8/24/2015

Draft New Source Performance Standards to Reduce Methane and VOC Emissions - The oil and gas sector is the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) latest target regarding the reduction of GHG emissions. The White House...more

EPA’s Estimate of the “Social Cost of Methane” Used to Justify New Source Performance Standards for the Oil and Natural Gas...

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 8/20/2015

On Tuesday, August 18, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued proposed New Source Performance Standards (“NSPS”) under the Clean Air Act covering methane and volatile organic compound (“VOC”) emissions...more

EPA Hits Oil and Gas Industry With a Flurry of Proposed Methane Regulations

Bracewell LLP on 8/19/2015

EPA took major steps on August 18, 2015 to curtail methane emissions from the oil and gas industry by simultaneously releasing four new proposed rules. These actions are part of the Obama Administration’s larger climate...more

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