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April 2024 WOTUS Litigation Update

The revision of the rule defining “waters of the United States” (“WOTUS”; the “Post-Sackett Rule”) has not resolved the...


Tags: Isolated Wetlands, WOTUS, Clean Water Act, USEPA,

On Friday, April 19, 2024, USEPA announced it will publish a final rule designating PFOS and PFOA as CERCLA hazardous substances...


Tags: CERCLA, PFAS, USEPA

On March 26, 2024, USEPA published a plan to collect nationwide data on per- and polyfluoralkyl substances (PFAS) that will be...


Tags: Clean Water Act, PFAS, USEPA

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

UPDATE: US EPA codified the addition of seven PFAS to the Toxic Release Inventory, discussed below, on May 17, 2024. The action...


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

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