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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 -

Delaware River Basin Commission Converts Fracking Moratorium into Permanent Ban

Morgan Lewis - Power & Pipes on 3/8/2021

The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) on February 25, 2021, approved a new regulation formally prohibiting high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF), or fracking, in the Delaware River Basin. The final rule makes permanent...more

Department of Energy Predicts Substantial Impact From Fracking Ban

Morgan Lewis - Power & Pipes on 2/15/2021

The US Department of Energy submitted a report to the president last month on “Economic and National Security Impacts under a Hydraulic Fracturing Ban.” This 80-page report analyzed the effects of a hypothetical United States...more

California Environmental Law & Policy Update - February 2020 #4

Allen Matkins on 2/28/2020

FERC orders draining of Santa Clara County’s biggest reservoir due to risk of earthquake collapse - The Mercury News – February 25 - In a dramatic decision that could significantly impact Silicon Valley’s water...more

Connecticut 2018 Environmental Legislative Update - End of Session Wrap-Up Report

Pullman & Comley, LLC on 6/1/2018

Passed Bills: Significant 2018 Environmental Public Acts - PA 18-82: Climate Change and Resiliency - This act on climate change planning and resiliency contains four principal elements: adoption of a Connecticut-defined...more

Newsletter: Environmental Law Update

Pullman & Comley, LLC on 3/5/2018

Throughout Connecticut’s legislative session, these updates highlight developments concerning environmental law and policy. The author prepares updates as Legislative Liaison of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Environmental...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

From Playa Lakes To Prairie Potholes: Four Things Energy Companies Need to Know About the WOTUS Rule

BakerHostetler on 8/24/2015

Have one or several playa lakes on or near a well pad in the Permian Basin? An access road nearby an ephemeral tributary of the Green River in the Uintah Basin? A pipeline that traverses lands dotted with prairie potholes in...more

Are Oil and Gas Producers Protecting the Environment?

Gray Reed on 7/2/2014

In their search for Utopia, some opponents of oil and gas drilling ignore innovation … What’s harmful now will forever be that way....more

REsource - Winter 2013/2014

Goodwin on 1/13/2014

In This Issue: Bringing Non-U.S. Capital Into (and Back Out of) U.S. Real Estate; A Wider Play of Shale: A Hydraulic Fracturing Primer; California Clears Way for Pollution Clean-Up with AB 440; and Which Way is the...more

DOGGR Delays Release of Draft Fracking Rules Pending Possible Instruction from Lawmakers

Stoel Rives LLP on 8/9/2013

At a conference in Los Angeles at the end of July, the chair of the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), Felicia Marcus, noted that the Department of Conservation’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources...more

DOE Study Finds Fracking Does Not Contaminate Drinking Water Sources in Marcellus Shale

Stoel Rives LLP on 7/23/2013

Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) told The Associated Press that the preliminary results of its study indicated that that fracking chemicals did not reach drinking water sources at a well site in the Marcellus...more

DOE Statement on Marcellus Shale Hydraulic Fracturing Study

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 7/22/2013

This is a revised alert reflecting updated information in a July 19 National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) media release, which clarified prior NETL statements on the hydraulic fracturing study contained in earlier...more

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