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By Josefa Velasquez | June 12, 2017
Environmental groups are making a last-ditch effort to bank hydraulic fracturing waste from coming into New York from neighboring states like Pennsylvania.
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By Max Mitchell | June 12, 2017
The Commonwealth Court has approved the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's decision to allow a unique drilling process that a challenger argued is an "abnormally dangerous activity" occurring too close to an active oil refinery.
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By John Council | June 12, 2017
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has swatted back an attempt by one of the world's largest energy companies to avoid over $216 million in potential federal civil penalties for allegedly attempting to manipulate the natural gas markets.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 9, 2017
Trial court properly reversed the council's denial of applicants' conditional use application because applicants met the specific requirements of the ordinance and objectors' testimony was the kind of speculative evidence insufficient to constitute proof of detriments to health, safety and welfare exceeding those ordinarily to be expected from the proposed use. Affirmed and remanded.
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By Max Mitchell | June 8, 2017
The record-high penalty the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission levied against an energy distribution company that allegedly overcharged customers during the 2014 polar vortex has been upheld under a ruling issued by a sharply divided Commonwealth Court.
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By Sue Reisinger | May 30, 2017
Former PetroTiger Ltd. general counsel Gregory Weisman has been suspended from practicing before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission more than three years after his guilty plea in a bribery case.
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By Meghan Tribe | May 30, 2017
Jenner & Block, having just recruited Akin Gump's energy regulatory co-chair Suedeen Kelly, is building out a new practice group after adding two more lawyers with experience at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The move marks Jenner & Block's third new practice area in almost as many months.
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By Zack Needles | May 26, 2017
In a ruling that could prove instructive to parties seeking to block construction of natural gas wells in their communities, the Commonwealth Court overruled an Allegheny County borough's denial of a driller's conditional use application, finding that the borough council relied on inadequate testimony by objectors.
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By Max Mitchell | May 15, 2017
The state Supreme Court's most recent decision striking down portions of Act 13 dealing with eminent domain for oil and gas industry projects did not disturb a prior decision allowing Sunoco to condemn property for its Mariner East 2 pipeline, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.
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By Greg Land | May 12, 2017
The six-week trial revolved around claims by Houston-based equity firm Prime Natural Resources that the well's insurer, Lloyd's of London, improperly refused to reimburse some of the expenses it incurred to repair and replace it.
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