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Japan Will Restart Nuclear Reactors and Build New Nuclear

Energy Central

Japan wants to restart seven more nuclear reactors from next summer onward, Japan PM Kishida said at a government meeting on “green transformation.” That would bring the number of reactors brought back online after the 2011 Fukushima catastrophe to 17 out of. Read moreRead More

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Parties May Agree to Expanded Judicial Review Under Texas Arbitration Act — Nafta Traders, Inc. v. Quinn

The Energy Law

8] Of course, they will also need to make a verbatim record of the arbitration proceeding and should consider specifying in their arbitration provision that the TAA governs any proceeding thereunder and that any suit to confirm, modify, or vacate an award must be brought in a Texas state court. ——– 9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16. May 13, 2011).

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It’s Heating Up: United States Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Proper Jurisdiction for Climate-Change Lawsuit

The Energy Law

By granting certiorari and hearing oral arguments, the Supreme Court has agreed to review the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision remanding the suit to state court after rejecting the energy companies’ contention that they were acting as federal officers pursuant to historical contracts with the federal government.

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

The Energy Law

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. After a bench trial in late 2011, the Claims Court held that a temporary taking had occurred.

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It’s Heating Up: United States Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Proper Jurisdiction for Climate-Change Lawsuit

The Energy Law

By granting certiorari and hearing oral arguments, the Supreme Court has agreed to review the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision remanding the suit to state court after rejecting the energy companies’ contention that they were acting as federal officers pursuant to historical contracts with the federal government.

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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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New Texas Law Encourages Recycling of Wastewater From Oil and Gas Operations by Clarifying Ownership and Limiting Tort Liability

The Energy Law

In 2011, 3.5 The bill requires the Railroad Commission of Texas to adopt rules to govern the treatment and beneficial use of oil and gas waste. The wastewater produced in fracking operations is considered unusable because it contains chemicals, salt, leached minerals and other oil and gas wastes.

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