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How BP Decided to Fight the Deepwater Settlement

The oil giant embraced a settlement that resolved billions of dollars worth of oil spill claims—and then turned against it. Why?
21 minute read

The Recorder

State Energy Lawyers Join Crowell

2 minute read

Litigation Daily

In Chevron Ruling, a Cautionary Tale for Lawyers

Plenty of attorneys besides Steven Donziger were drawn into the morass of Chevron's Ecuadorean environmental battle over the years. Tuesday's ruling in Chevron's fraud case against the plaintiffs can be read as a tale of lawyers run amok and sometimes led astray.
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

Fifth Circuit to BP on Oil Spill Deal: Live With It

The court told BP and its lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis and Gibson Dunn that the company has no one to blame for the Deepwater Horizon claims process but itself.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Issues in Solar Energy Development

While solar energy projects have been prevalent in California, Arizona and New Jersey for many years, large scale solar development is just now gaining a foothold in Texas.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Who Pays to Remove Injected Carbon Dioxide?

Can gas companies share the cost of removing injected carbon dioxide as a part of enhanced recovery operations with royalty owners as a postproduction cost? Or is the cost is actually a production cost that gas companies cannot deduct from royalty owners' share?
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Six Critical Issues Facing Onshore LNG Projects

Global liquefied natural gas projects are booming, and construction of onshore LNG facilities is a hot topic. Lawyers for operators and contractors should consider certain recurring themes in large-scale, onshore, stick-built LNG projects.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

EPA Finds Friends at High Court

Any hope among industry advocates that the U.S. Supreme Court might ban Environmental Protection Agency regulation of greenhouse gases altogether went up in smoke, so to speak, during more than 90 minutes of spirited argument last week.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Southern Company Powers Up Legal Team With New GC

The energy company cites the new hire's 20-plus years of experience in the sector.
1 minute read

The American Lawyer

Milestones in the Deepwater Horizon Settlement

A timeline shows how BP's stance toward the settlement it signed in 2012 shifted towards outright opposition.
2 minute read

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