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Ninth Circuit Vacates EPA Rule Excepting Oil and Gas Construction Discharges from NPDES Permitting

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By Claire Bienvenu On May 23, 2008, the Ninth Circuit vacated EPA’s rule exempting discharges of sediment resulting from oil and gas construction activities from National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit requirements. 06-73217 (9th Cir.

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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Weighs in on Hydraulic Fracturing and Subsurface Trespass

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The first is a 2008 Texas Supreme Court decision in which the court framed the issue as “whether subsurface hydraulic fracturing of a natural gas well that extends into another’s property is a trespass for which the value of gas drained as a result may be recovered as damages.” [2] 6] Briggs , 2020 WL 355911 at p. *5.

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Department of Interior Proposes New Financial Assurance and Decommissioning Regulations

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2008-N07, a lessee that passed the established thresholds was waived from providing additional security to cover its decommissioning liability. 2008-N07 was subsequently replaced in 2016 by the controversial NTL No. This first of such NTLs, NTL No. 98-18N, was replaced by NTL No. 2003-N06, which was itself replaced by NTL No.

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Department of Interior Proposes New Financial Assurance and Decommissioning Regulations

The Energy Law Blog

2008-N07, a lessee that passed the established thresholds was waived from providing additional security to cover its decommissioning liability. 2008-N07 was subsequently replaced in 2016 by the controversial NTL No. This first of such NTLs, NTL No. 98-18N, was replaced by NTL No. 2003-N06, which was itself replaced by NTL No.