The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday held that a 1984 pole-attachment agreement between CPS Energy and a telecommunications company incorporated later-enacted anti-discrimination statutes through an 'all laws' compliance clause, with Justice Young writing th...
The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a lower court ruling that would have freed mineral royalty owners from downstream processing costs, holding that a deed reserving royalty rights in minerals 'produced from the above described acreage' establishes...
The White House Council on Environmental Quality issued guidance directing federal agencies to adopt a "CE-first" approach for establishing categorical exclusions under the National Environmental Policy Act, aiming to streamline infrastructure permitting an...
Writing for a 2-1 panel on Wednesday, Circuit Judge Milan D. Smith Jr., joined by Judge Daniel A. Bress, held that environmental and religious freedom challenges to a congressionally mandated land exchange transferring nearly 2,500 acres of National Forest...
Writing for a unanimous panel, Circuit Judge Pan, joined by Chief Judge Srinivasan and Circuit Judge Rao, held Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency violated its own 2014 regulation when it denied small refinery exemptions for failing a two-year t...
The First Circuit on Tuesday upheld 27-month prison sentences for two brothers who admitted bribing energy program officials to secure lucrative contracts, rejecting their claims that the judge miscalculated their criminal proceeds at 'multimillions' instea...
A Seventh Circuit panel Monday affirmed a district court ruling that unexercised floating easement rights for future pipeline construction cannot be fixed to a specific location under Indiana law, rejecting landowners' attempt to limit a gas company's broad...
The Tenth Circuit on Monday affirmed federal energy regulators' adoption of a balance-sheet approach for calculating exit fees when electric cooperatives leave Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, rejecting the utility's argument that the meth...