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BP Oil Spill Continues to Impact Gulf Residents
Photo by Mark O'Neil. Some rights reserved. Though much of the world seems to have moved on from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the struggle continues along the Gulf of Mexico. Last week, the...
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Last Week in Environmental Contingencies and Proceedings Disclosure – Oil and...
As we’ve posted in the past, public companies must generally disclose material legal proceedings in their annual and quarterly reports to the SEC. Today we’ve pulled some disclosures of environmental...
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BOEMRE Recusals Show Substantial Agency-Industry Coziness
Photo by currybet. Some rights reserved. Some diligent FOIA handiwork by the Associated Press has dug up quantitative confirmation of the ties between the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Enforcement...
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Injured On the Job, Offshore
Photo by Patrick Mackie. Some rights reserved. A Mayer Brown Legal Update published late last week discussed the January 11, 2012, Supreme Court Opinion in Pacific Operators Offshore, LLP v....
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All of the Above? NRDC Wants None of It
Photo by NOAA's National Ocean Service. Some rights reserved. Quick on the heels of an upbeat Department of the Interior Press Release came an equal-and-opposite reaction from the National Resources...
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Shell a Step Closer to Arctic Drilling
Beaufort Sea ice and Brooks Mountain Range. Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, some rights reserved. On Wednesday, the Department of the Interior announced approval of Shell’s oil spill response...
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EXTRA! EXTRA! Knowledge Mosaic Continues to Fill Out Its Energy &...
Photo by DRB62. Some rights reserved. It might not be the most headline-grabbing environmental news, but a recent memo from Fulbright & Jaworski announced that a 2010 BSEE Notice to Lessees and...
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Offshore Drilling: Alaska, and More.
Photo by Jim Bain. Some rights reserved. The Interior Department is very publicly scrutinizing every detail of Shell’s plan to begin drilling in the fragile Arctic this summer. Top officials are...
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Arctic Drilling: What’s it Worth?
Beaufort Sea, Alaska, one of Shell’s drill sites. Photo by NASA/Kathryn Hansen, some rights reserved. Last week, Shell called off its plans to drill in the Arctic until next summer after part of its...
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Bobby Jindal Presents “The Creature From the Oil-Black Lagoon”
via Wikipedia There’s a lot of swampland on the Gulf Coast. A lot of that swampland has been polluted with oil. And a lot of that oil has oozed into the swamps of the legal system which is brimming...
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