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Inadvertent Disclosure of Privileged Electronic Documents Constitutes Waiver of Privilege

The Energy Law Blog

Despite the plaintiff’s cooperation, defendants abandoned their plans to effectuate such an agreement and decided to conduct a document by document privilege review. The plaintiff then filed a motion seeking a ruling that any privilege associated with the electronic documents had been waived. 2d __, 2008 WL 2221841 (D.Md.

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Department of Interior Proposes New Financial Assurance and Decommissioning Regulations

The Energy Law Blog

The path to this Proposed Rule has been long and winding, beginning in 2014 with BOEM resisting making changes through formal notice and comment rulemaking pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, and instead continuing to regulate this issue through Notice to Lessee (“NTL”) guidance documents.

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Renewable Energy Efforts Highlighted in Draft Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Louisiana

The Energy Law Blog

This document contains proposed strategies and specific actions across several priority areas to be considered in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Actions under strategy 9 center around drafting new legislation to increase the plugging of abandoned and orphaned wells. The period for public comment ends on October 8 th.

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Department of Interior Proposes New Financial Assurance and Decommissioning Regulations

The Energy Law Blog

The path to this Proposed Rule has been long and winding, beginning in 2014 with BOEM resisting making changes through formal notice and comment rulemaking pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, and instead continuing to regulate this issue through Notice to Lessee (“NTL”) guidance documents.

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Oklahoma to receive $78 million from feds for abandoned well cleanup

Underground Vision Technologies

billion President Biden says will be used to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells nationwidewells that are a source of methane emissions. We must act with urgency to address the more than one hundred thousand documented orphaned wells across the country and leave no community behind. By Phinds, OilGasLeads.com