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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 -

2019 Connecticut Environmental Legislative Update, “Beaujolais Nouveau” Edition

Pullman & Comley, LLC on 6/10/2019

Welcome to our Environmental Legislative Updates. Throughout Connecticut’s legislative session, these updates highlight developments concerning environmental law and policy. ...more

An Update on Pennsylvania's Oil and Gas Law - Act 13 - After Supreme Court Decisions

Troutman Pepper on 10/10/2016

While many key provisions of Act 13 have now been struck down by the Supreme Court’s two Robinson decisions, much of the Act remains. Act 13 of 2012 represented a major overhaul of Pennsylvania’s oil and gas law and...more

Municipal Legal News

Dickinson Wright on 10/4/2016

On September 21, Governor Snyder signed a package of bills (2016 PA 281-283) that significantly expands the types of medical marijuana facilities permitted under state law, and establishes a licensing scheme similar to the...more

Hydraulic Fracturing: State Regulatory Roundup Vol. 45

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 10/6/2015

Fracking Insider Readers: We are pleased to bring you Volume 45 of our State Regulatory Roundup, including updates in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Texas. As we explained in earlier volumes, we designed the Roundup to provide...more

Texas Town Repeals Voter-Approved Ban on Hydraulic Fracturing

BakerHostetler on 6/24/2015

Just seven months after voters in Denton, Texas, approved a measure banning hydraulic fracturing within city limits, the Denton City Council voted 6 to 1 to repeal the ban. Council members called the move a “strategic repeal”...more

Looks Like Frack is Back, Governor Abbott Signs House Bill 40

Jackson Walker on 5/27/2015

Yesterday, Governor Gregg Abbott signed into law House Bill 40, also known as the Denton Fracking Bill, which leaves municipalities with minimal power to regulate the oil and gas industry. The bill takes effect immediately...more

Texas Legislature Takes Further Aim at Local/Municipal Fracking Bans

BakerHostetler on 3/13/2015

On Tuesday, March 11, 2015, the Texas Legislature’s 84th Session gained another bill directed at combating future local and municipal fracking bans. State Rep. Drew Darby (R-San Angelo), Chairman of the Texas House Energy...more

2015 Texas Legislative Session Includes Twin Bills Concerning Municipal Fracking Bans

BakerHostetler on 1/23/2015

With the opening of the 84th Session of the Texas Legislature on January 13, 2015, two of the more closely watched bills in the energy arena will be House Bill 539 (HB539) and House Bill 540 (HB540). HB539, filed on December...more

Denton Becomes First Texas City to Ban Hydraulic Fracturing

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 11/20/2014

On Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 59 percent of voters elected to ban the practice of hydraulic fracturing (“fracing”) in the city of Denton, which sits on top of the hydrocarbon-rich Barnett Shale. Although the ban does not...more

Ohio Elections Yield Mixed Results on Local Hydraulic Fracturing Bans

BakerHostetler on 11/18/2014

Last week’s Election Day in Ohio produced victories for fracing supporters and opponents alike. Proposed hydraulic fracturing bans were on the ballot in four different municipal contests. Voters in one city, Athens, approved...more

Leases Not Subject to Business Privilege Taxes - Commonwealth Court Case Presents Refund Opportunities

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 10/14/2014

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, in a 5-2 decision, held that the Local Tax Enabling Act ("LTEA") bars taxing jurisdictions from imposing business privilege taxes, on leases or lease transactions. Fish, Hrabick and...more

Reviewing Courts' Approaches to State or Local Control of Hydraulic Fracturing

Baker Donelson on 7/31/2014

While many debates over hydraulic fracturing continue throughout the oil and gas industry, a growing number of state courts are addressing the "home rule" argument, or in this case, whether local governments within the state...more

Colorado Activist Group Opposed to Hydraulic Fracturing Proposes Ballot Initiative To Give Municipalities Broad Regulatory...

BakerHostetler on 1/28/2014

Last week, the Colorado Community Rights Network, an activist group that opposes hydraulic fracturing, filed a proposed ballot initiative to amend the Colorado Constitution to give municipalities extraordinarily broad...more

N.Y. Appellate Court: Municipalities Can Ban O&G Activity

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 6/3/2013

An intermediate appellate court in New York recently affirmed that a local government has the authority to enact zoning ordinances banning all oil and natural gas activities within municipal limits. In 2011, the Town of...more

The Shale Play Today - May 2013

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 5/31/2013

In This Issue: - Finally -- Rules Governing W.Va. Horizontal Well Development - N.Y. Appellate Court: Municipalities Can Ban O&G Activity - Fracking Nearly Doubles Ohio Oil & Natural Gas Output - Excerpt...more

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