Miriam Rozen

February 27, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

Last year, a federal agency issued orders that would have required many clients to add additional and expensive bonding for potentially liabilities incurred when decommissioning such offshore rigs. Those are off the table for now.

By Miriam Rozen

7 minute read

February 22, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

After the U.S. Senate confirmed Scott Pruitt, the former Oklahoma attorney general, as the Environmental Protection Agency administrator this month, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, said Republicans "will rue the day that they had this nomination rammed through the Senate on the very day that the emails were being litigated in Oklahoma, in order to get ahead of any counterpressure."

By Miriam Rozen

10 minute read

February 21, 2017 | National Law Journal

Neil Gorsuch, a Colorado native and the son of the first woman to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, has a mixed record in cases that pit the energy sector against environmentalists and regulators.

By Miriam Rozen

18 minute read

February 21, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

The number of bankruptcies among exploration and production oil and gas companies has quadrupled in the new year through Feb. 15, compared with the same time period in 2016, according to a tracking system developed by Stephen Pezanosky, a bankruptcy partner in Haynes and Boone's Fort Worth office, and other partners at the firm.

By Miriam Rozen

6 minute read

February 16, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

If former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as Secretary of Energy, wins confirmation on the floor of the U.S. Senate, he will not be taking Tony Buzbee with him to Washington, D.C.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

February 16, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

If energy clients want to stop too blunt of a resurrection of an energy extraction disclosure rule — which President Donald Trump killed by signing a resolution this week — they should stress its anti-competitiveness rather than its costs.

By MIRIAM Rozen

6 minute read

February 13, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

Do President Donald Trump's "America First" policies put the US energy players, particularly exporters of natural gas to Mexico, on less certain footing? Yes, according to some lawyers and consultants who advise such clients.

By Miriam Rozen

7 minute read

February 09, 2017 | National Law Journal

"American pipelines made with American steel." That was the principle President Donald Trump announced in late January to no roaring applause from the oil and gas pipeline industry and the lawyers who advise it. Instead, they raised a flurry of questions.

By Miriam Rozen

7 minute read

February 09, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

If former Secretary of State James Baker, a senior partner at Baker Botts in Houston, gets his way, there may be less work for litigation lawyers suing and defending the energy industry.

By Miriam Rozen

9 minute read

February 08, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

Trinity East Energy won an opportunity to take another crack at getting $30 million out of the city of Dallas, based on allegations that it leased mineral rights for city-owned property to the company but then refused its applications to drill for oil and gas.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read