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Helping Clients With Their Energy and Environmental Needs

The Seventh District Court of Appeals recently affirmed summary judgment against two lessors asserting claims of bad faith...


Tags: Bad Faith Pooling, Subsurface Mineral Trespass

Last month, in State ex rel. AWMS Waters Solutions, LLC v. Mertz, the Eleventh Appellate District held that AWMS had failed to...


Tags: Injection Well, Just Compensation Clause, Fifth Amendment

In a significant decision released on December 29, 2022, the Supreme Court of Ohio rejected the doctrine that the state’s courts...


Tags: Environmental, Oil and Gas, Chevron Deference

On December 15, 2022, USEPA issued a final rule amending the All Appropriate Inquiries Rule (“AAI” Rule) to include ASTM...


Tags: Environmental, CERCLA, PFAS, USEPA

        On November 30, 2022, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”), published a final rule reclassifying the northern...


Tags: Endangered Species, Northern Long-Eared Bat

On November 30, 2022, U.S.EPA finalized a rule adding 12 chemicals to the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI). The 12 chemicals are as...


Tags: Toxic Release Inventory, Environment, USEPA, Industrial

Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals recently held that an “anti-washout” provision found in multiple assignments of...


Tags: 7th District, Oil and Gas Leases, Anti-Washout Provision, ORRI

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