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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 -

Dallas Court of Appeals Reverses $2.9 Million Jury Verdict, Finding Insufficient Evidence of Intent

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 2/7/2017

In 2014, the jury awarded $2.9 million to plaintiff landowners in Lisa Parr et.al. v. Aruba Petroleum, Inc., a case involving alleged hydrocarbon exposure due to hydraulic fracturing operations. Earlier this week, the Dallas...more

OSHA’s Crystalline Silica Rule: Compliance Clock Ticks While Legal Challenges Mount

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/19/2016

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published its final rule on “Occupational Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica” (the “Silica Rule”) on March 25, 2016, and as expected numerous manufacturing...more

A Beginner’s Guide to OSHA’s Final Silica Rule

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/9/2016

On March 24, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced its final rule on occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica. The rule was published in the Federal Register on March 25, 2016....more

OSHA Issues Final Silica Rule: What’s the Same and What’s Changed?

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/28/2016

On March 25, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published in the Federal Register its final rule on occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica. U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E....more

Pennsylvania Jury Awards $4.2 Million in Groundwater Contamination Case

BakerHostetler on 3/14/2016

On Thursday, a federal jury in Pennsylvania ordered Cabot Oil & Gas to pay more than $4.2 million in damages to two Pennsylvania families who sued in 2009 alleging that the Texas-based company’s drilling operations...more

Clean Power Rule Challenges Will Proceed Sooner or Later, But Its Goal May Already Be Close at Hand

Burr & Forman on 9/3/2015

Legal challenges filed almost immediately after President Obama announced the Clean Power Rule may be premature. That is what attorneys for EPA told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently in...more

Penn Study Unlikely to Result in Flood of Fracking Lawsuits

Ballard Spahr LLP on 7/17/2015

A recently released study from scientists at the University of Pennsylvania suggests a link between hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") for gas and oil and cardiac and neurological illnesses. Whether the report triggers a rash...more

Other 2014 Environmental and Land Use Legislation: Fracking, Brownfields, State Land Conservation, Private Easements, Wood Burning...

Pullman & Comley, LLC on 8/15/2014

The General Assembly passed noteworthy bills on six diverse environmental and land use subjects. Hydraulic Fracturing Waste - A deceptively simple bill concerning hydraulic fracturing waste, PA 14-200, emerged...more

Toxic Tort & Product Liability Quarterly Volume 7, Number 3

Beveridge & Diamond PC on 7/28/2014

PREEMPTION - Supreme Court Says CERCLA Does Not Preempt Repose Defense for Tort Claims - The U.S. Supreme Court has put to rest a longstanding legal question affecting the deadline for plaintiffs to bring toxic tort...more

Colorado Supreme Court Grants Petition to Consider Use of Lone Pine Orders in Toxic Tort Case Involving Hydraulic Fracturing

BakerHostetler on 4/11/2014

On Monday, the Colorado Supreme Court granted a Petition for Writ of Certiorari in Antero Resources, et al. v. Strudley, et al. The Strudley case involves claims relating to alleged injuries from natural gas drilling...more

OSHA proposes heightened standards for Crystalline Silica exposure – Opportunity to comment ends January 27

Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP on 1/15/2014

In an attempt to strengthen its Crystalline Silica exposure rule, on September 12, 2013, OSHA proposed significant changes that could result in higher compliance costs and may require additional risk management strategies...more

OSHA Proposes Silica Rule Affecting Fracking Workers

Stoel Rives LLP on 9/10/2013

Last week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed a rule to decrease the permissible exposure limits (PELs) for crystalline silica. OSHA indicated that the inhalation of silica dust can increase...more

Colorado Supreme Court Asked To Address Whether “Lone Pine” Orders Are Allowed in Toxic Tort Case Involving Hydraulic Fracturing

BakerHostetler on 9/5/2013

On August 29, 2013, Antero Resources asked the Colorado Supreme Court to review the Colorado Court of Appeal’s decision in Strudley v. Antero Resources Corp., a decision by the Colorado Court of Appeals that reversed a trial...more

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Fracking › Toxic Exposure

Dallas Court of Appeals Reverses $2.9 Million Jury Verdict, Finding Insufficient Evidence of Intent

OSHA’s Crystalline Silica Rule: Compliance Clock Ticks While Legal Challenges Mount

A Beginner’s Guide to OSHA’s Final Silica Rule

OSHA Issues Final Silica Rule: What’s the Same and What’s Changed?

Pennsylvania Jury Awards $4.2 Million in Groundwater Contamination Case

Clean Power Rule Challenges Will Proceed Sooner or Later, But Its Goal May Already Be Close at Hand

Penn Study Unlikely to Result in Flood of Fracking Lawsuits

Other 2014 Environmental and Land Use Legislation: Fracking, Brownfields, State Land Conservation, Private Easements, Wood Burning...

Toxic Tort & Product Liability Quarterly Volume 7, Number 3

Colorado Supreme Court Grants Petition to Consider Use of Lone Pine Orders in Toxic Tort Case Involving Hydraulic Fracturing

OSHA proposes heightened standards for Crystalline Silica exposure – Opportunity to comment ends January 27

OSHA Proposes Silica Rule Affecting Fracking Workers

Colorado Supreme Court Asked To Address Whether “Lone Pine” Orders Are Allowed in Toxic Tort Case Involving Hydraulic Fracturing

Energy Newsletter - September 2013

Department of Energy Report Indicates Fracking Has Not Contaminated Drinking Water in Western Pennsylvania

California Environmental Law and Policy Update - July 25, 2013

Colorado Court of Appeals Revives Fracking Case – Holds “Lone Pine” Order Not Allowed In Colorado

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