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Slashing Costs: Missouri School District Shares Experience with Propane

NGT News

Since it replaced aging diesel buses with propane autogas buses, the Grain Valley School District in Missouri has been saving money on fuel and maintenance costs. In 2018, the district decided to purchase 14 IC Bus CE Series propane autogas buses to replace diesel buses of 2001 and 2002 model years. The new buses joined […].

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Louisiana’s Sabine River Authority Not Entitled To Sovereign Immunity

The Energy Law Blog

The Fifth Circuit’s ruling in Bonin will impact future flood-damage litigation by making it easier for plaintiff landowners to bring claims against various State River Authorities for decisions made in the maintenance, conservation, and supervision of dams, reservoirs, rivers, and streams in their respective watersheds. Hawkins , 381 F.3d

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Louisiana Second Circuit Addresses: (1) Creation of Mineral Servitudes Via Notarial Acts of Correction; (2) Obstacles Suspending the Prescription of Nonuse from Running Against Mineral Servitudes; and (3) Payment of Court Costs in Concursus Actions

The Energy Law Blog

18] In 2002, Petro-Chem, the operator, initiated proceedings to create a compulsory unit encompassing a portion of the minerals subject to the Harts’ mineral servitude. [19] Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) in 1999 and 1998, respectively, over the surface of the property subject to the Harts’ mineral servitude. [17]

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