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News & Analysis as of May 21, 2013

Uncertainty Surrounds Illinois’s Nationally-Watched Collaborative Legislation On Fracking
Local Governments Continue to Fight States for Right to Govern Fracking

Texas Agencies Announce Rules to Streamline Permitting and Ease Requirements for Oil and Gas Well Operators

by Cassie J. Dallas | BakerHostetler on 2/25/2013

In recent weeks, both the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and Texas Railroad Commission (TRRC) have proposed rules that would ease requirements for operators. On February 8, 2013, the TCEQ announced that...more

DISPUTE RESOLUTION: Business Litigation Important Texas Water Rights Case Could Affect Oil & Gas Activities as Well by Brannon...

by King & Spalding on 1/18/2013

The Texas Supreme Court recently issued an important decision on a groundwater rights question that had gone unanswered for more than a century. In Edwards Aquifer Authority v. Day, the Court held that Texas property owners...more

EPA Extends Comment Period On Pavillion Groundwater Revised Report

by Cassie J. Dallas | BakerHostetler on 1/16/2013

In 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) began investigating claims of groundwater contamination in private drinking water wells in and around Pavillion, Wyoming....more

Colorado Adopts Groundwater and Setback Drilling Rules, Launches Emissions Study

by Jason Yearout | BakerHostetler on 1/11/2013

This week the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission conducted three days of public hearings on proposed revisions to its oil and gas well rules to address concerns posed by increased hydraulic fracturing activity....more

Oil and Gas Leasing and Development: A Real Estate Lending Perspective

by Steven Regan | Reed Smith on 1/3/2013

The Marcellus, Utica and other Shale gas plays have been an economic boon to landowners, the oil and gas industry, and the states and communities in which production is occurring. The impacts of shale oil and gas development...more

Hydraulic Fracturing News Flash: December 2012 - California’s Proposal to Regulate Hydraulic Fracking

by Julia Adams, Earl L. Hagström | Sedgwick LLP on 12/21/2012

On December 18, 2012, California’s Department of Conservation, Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) released its long-awaited draft of hydraulic fracturing regulations (Fracking Regulations). The...more

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