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United States Court of Appeals Finds BOEM Environmental Impact Statement Deficient, But Declines to Vacate Leases Issued in 2018 Offshore Lease Sales

The Energy Law

After the sales, three environmental groups sued Interior and BOEM, asserting that the supplemental EIS did not comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) which governs the preparation of EISs. 4] The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Interior, resulting in the environmental groups’ appeal. FERC , 419 F.3d

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Federal Circuit Holds U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Not Liable for Hurricane Katrina Flood Damage

The Energy Law

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and catastrophically flooded St. Bernard Parish Government, sued the federal government in Claims Court, claiming that, under the Tucker Act, both action and inaction by the Corps constituted a “taking” by causing flood damage to their properties.

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Supreme Court Denies Relief to Oil Companies

The Energy Law

2415(a), which imposes a 6-year statute of limitations for Government “every action for money damages. The Court also found that the general rule that statutes of limitations are construed narrowly against the government erased all further doubts as to the meaning of section 2415(a). whether 28 U.S.C. Amoco Production Co. 3d 722 (D.C.

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A Summary of Professor Jim Rossi’s Lecture on the “Federalism Battles in Energy Transportation”

The Energy Law

To illustrate these conflicts in energy transportation, Professor Rossi used two transportation examples that differ in geography, product transported, governing body historically responsible for regulation, and often in public perception. The Constitution Pipeline was granted federal permits.

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Petrel Resources Raises ÂŁ250,000 for Iraq Oil Projects

Iraq Business News: Oil & Gas

The dramatic growth in North American fracked output between 2005 and 2014 is less of a concern for OPEC exporters.

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Climate Change Jurisdiction: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Kicks Climate Change Case Back to State Court

The Energy Law

Amidst historically low oil prices and economic shutdowns, fossil fuel companies continue to defend against lawsuits brought by state and local governments claiming climate-change related damages. 1331 because the cities’ claims were “necessarily governed by federal common law.” 308, 314 (2005)). BP PLC et al., 470, 475 (1998).

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Wind Energy Development in the Gulf of Mexico

The Energy Law

Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. Qualification is the entry to doing business with the federal government as to federal leasing.

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