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On October 4, 2017, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California held that the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) cannot postpone implementation of natural gas meth...

https://www.minerallawblog.com/oil-gas/trumps-blm-cannot-delay-implementation-of-oil-and-gas-methane-rules-after-effective-date/

Widely anticipated on both sides of the aisle, on May 12, 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released final regulations to curb emissions of methane and volatile organic c...

https://www.minerallawblog.com/oil-gas/epa-issues-expansive-costly-new-source-performance-standards-for-oil-and-gas-sector/

On August 18, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released proposed regulations aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from oil and gas facilit...

https://www.minerallawblog.com/oil-gas/u-s-epa-proposes-new-rules-to-curb-methane-emissions-from-oil-and-gas-sector/

Today, Friday, March 20, the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”), an agency within the Department of the Interior, published regulations for hydraulic fracturing on Federal and Indian lands.  ...

https://www.minerallawblog.com/oil-gas/obama-administration-releases-federal-fracking-regulations/

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced a new goal to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.  (See White House Fact Sheet.)  The EPA’s goal is to reduce...

https://www.minerallawblog.com/oil-gas/epa-announces-plan-for-rulemaking-to-reduce-methane-emissions-from-the-oil-and-gas-industry/

In several recent studies on methane emissions relating to the natural gas industry, scientists concluded that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) underestimated the quantity of methan...

https://www.minerallawblog.com/oil-gas/study-suggests-epa-underestimated-natural-gas-methane-emissions-but-not-for-fracking-and-epa-release/