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In EOG Resources, Inc. v. Lucky Land Management, LLC, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31348, United States District Court for the Southern...

Tags: Horizontal Wells, Surface Use, severed minerals, Reasonable Use of Surface

On Tuesday, January 9, 2024, USEPA announced the automatic addition of seven PFAS to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)....


Tags: Environmental, PFAS, Environment, TRI,

Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals recently interpreted two reservations of non-participating royalty interests (NPRIs)...


Tags: Deed Interpretation, Royalties, Royalty, NPRI

Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals recently clarified when an oil and gas lease and a release of an oil and gas lease...


Tags: Ohio Marketable Title Act, MTA, "Oil and Gas Lease", Release,

Eleven states (but not Ohio) challenged US EPA’s new Clean Water Act Section 401 water quality certification rule

On December 4, a coalition of eleven states and three industry groups filed a legal challenge to US EPA’s new Clean Water Act...


Tags: CWA, 401, WOTUS, Clean Water Act,

Recently, in Crum v. Mooney, 2023-Ohio-4451, Ohio’s Seventh Appellate District considered whether an 1898 assignment conveyed a...


Tags: "Oil and Gas Lease", Royalty

In a recent case, Crozier v. Pipe Creek Conservancy, L.L.C., 2023-Ohio-4297, Ohio’s Seventh Appellate District grappled with a...


Tags: Ohio Marketable Title Act, Marketable Title Act

USEPA issues new 401 Water Quality Certification Rule

On September 14, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA ) released a pre-publication version of the Clean Water...


Tags: CWA, 401, WOTUS, Clean Water Act,

By: Kristin Watt, Kristin Woeste, Trevor Burba, and Brooke Zentmeyer

On July 12, 2023, USEPA released a Pre-Publication Notice of...


Tags: Environmental, proposed rule, Lead-based paint, USEPA

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