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New York Law Journal

Halfmoon v. General Electric Co.

Only CERCLA, Navigation Law Claims Survive In Suit Against GE Over PCBs in Hudson River
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

The Petrochemical Renaissance: An Immediate Opportunity for Returns

Ask an energy industry expert about the effects of the U.S. shale boom, and the expert will likely speak of job creation, low natural gas and crude oil prices, and the emergence of U.S. LNG export terminals. A less likely answer is the dramatic rise in supply of natural gas liquids and its effect on the petrochemical industry.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Abbott Signs Controversial Bill Barring Local Fracking Bans

Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed into law House Bill 40. The new law pre-empts regulation of oil and gas activity at the municipal and local levels and places that duty with the state.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Greenberg Traurig Grabs Cadwalader Energy Leader

Gregory Lawrence, the former co-head of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft's renewables practice and head of its energy regulatory group, has joined Greenberg Traurig as a partner in Boston and Washington, D.C. Lawrence came to Cadwalader more than four years ago when the firm announced plans for a Houston office.
4 minute read

Law.com

BP Injury Settlement Upheld, But Worker Must Answer Fraud Claims

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has refused to invalidate a nearly $2.7 million settlement that BP PLC reached with a member of a boat crew who went to court to enforce the award after he never got paid. However, in its ruling on Friday, the panel determined that claimant Elton Johnson will need to provide evidence to a lower court that he didn't exaggerate injuries sustained in the 2010 blast that caused the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

New York Regulators Release Report on Fracking

New York regulators have released the final version of an environmental impact review of natural gas development that's expected to lead to the nation's first ban on a drilling process called fracking by a state with significant shale gas deposits.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Mitigating Buyer Risk in Oil and Gas Acquisitions

To mitigate the increased risk, buyers should increase their focus on identifying and quantifying risk while increasing protective measures that affect the periods before, during and after the sign and close of a transaction.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

High Court Cuts $66.5M Award in Gas Deal Case

In this contract breach and business interference tort case over an abandoned Bulgarian gas field venture, the principal issue is whether evidence supporting lost-market value was speculative and based on lost future profits, according to the Texas Supreme Court's opinion.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Kennedy v. Consol Energy, Inc., PICS Case No. 15-0704 (Pa. Super. April 22, 2015) Bowes, J. (27 pages).

ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Kennedy v. Consol Energy, Inc., PICS Case No. 15-0704 (Pa. Super. April 22, 2015) Bowes, J. (27 pages).

Since a deed reservation did not expressly include coalbed methane gas, but only expressly reserved oil and gas and the right to drill for natural gas, the grantor did not retain any right to coalbed methane gas. Order of the trial court affirmed.
4 minute read

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