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Alaska Miners Battle Illegal Seizure Of Valuable Claims
Posted on 9 Apr 2010 by William Perry Pendley

William Perry Pendley , President and Chief Operating Officer of Mountain States Legal Foundation DENVER, CO. - A husband and wife who own mining claims in Alaska that were illegally declared null and void by a federal agency have filed an administrative... Read More

Tags: Bureau of Land Management , Interior Board of Land Appeals , small miner waiver , mining

California Miners Battle Denial of Their Property Rights
Posted on 16 Apr 2010 by William Perry Pendley

William Perry Pendley , President and Chief Operating Officer of Mountain States Legal Foundation DENVER, CO. - Northern California miners who have been denied the right to conduct mining operations on their private property filed a lawsuit April 13... Read More

Tags: Forest Service , mining claim , Bureau of Land Management , Wilderness Act , property rights , fee simple , mining law , quiet title

Federal Judge Throws Out Obama Drilling Rules
Posted on 16 Aug 2011 by LexisNexis Emerging Issues Community Staff

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - (AP) A judge on Friday threw out Obama administration rules that sought to slow down expedited environmental review of oil and gas drilling on federal land. U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal ruled in favor of a petroleum industry... Read More

Tags: petroleum industry , federal lands , Salazar , Bureau of Land Management , Interior , Obama , oil , Western Energy Alliance , Freudenthal , lawsuit , U.S. Forest Service , Bush , gas , energy

California Energy Group Defends Oil and Gas Leasing
Posted on 8 Jul 2013 by William Perry Pendley

DENVER - A California nonprofit, non-partisan trade association that represents some 450 independent crude oil and natural gas producers, royalty owners, and service and supply companies on Juje 25 filed its brief with a California federal district court... Read More

Tags: California Independent Petroleum Association , Mountain States Legal Foundation , NEPA , Monterey-Santos Shale Formation , fracking , Bureau of Land Management , crude oil , California , oil and gas leases , William Perry Pendley , Center for Biological Diversity , Natural gas , environment , oil , shale , Litigation , energy law , hydraulic fracturing , BLM , National Environmental Policy Act , gas , MSLF , Sierra Club

Troutman Sanders: DOI and DOE Release 'Roadmap' for Solar Energy Development
Posted on 1 Aug 2012 by Troutman Sanders

On July 27, 2012, the Department of the Interior ("DOI") Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") and the Department of Energy ("DOE") announced the availability of the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement ("PEIS"... Read More

Tags: solar energy , DOI , Colorado , Bureau of Land Management , California , Nevada , Arizona , Ken Salazar , Department of the Interior , New Mexico , PEIS , Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement , Utah , DOE , BLM , Troutman Sanders , Department of Energy , energy

Free Download: Miners Sue Salazar, Alleging Illegal Million-Acre Land Lockup
Posted on 8 Mar 2012 by William Perry Pendley

By William Perry Pendley DENVER - A 117-year-old nonprofit, non-partisan mining trade association with thousands of members on March 6 filed a lawsuit in Arizona federal district court against the Obama Administration for its lock-up of a million acres... Read More

Tags: Mountain States Legal Foundation , General Mineral Law , Bureau of Land Management , Arizona , Ken Salazar , William Perry Pendley , U.S. Department of the Interior , Obama administration , Northwest Mining Association , uranium , mining , U.S. Forest Service , NWMA , National Environmental Policy Act , Federal Land Policy and Management Act , National Forest Management Act , energy

Alaska Miners Seek Court Ordered Return Of Valuable Claims
Posted on 25 May 2012 by William Perry Pendley

By William Perry Pendley DENVER - Three Alaska miners who sued U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar among others in Alaska federal district court after their claims were declared null and void by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on May 21... Read More

Tags: miners , U.S. Secretary of the Interior , Mountain States Legal Foundation , Bureau of Land Management , Interior Board of Land Appeals , Ken Salazar , William Perry Pendley , Alaska , Mullikin v. Salazar , Mullikin , IBLA , mining , BLM , energy

Babst Calland: Department of the Interior Releases Semiannual Statement Of Regulatory Priorities
Posted on 6 Dec 2013 by Babst Calland

By Jonathan E. Dan The Department of the Interior has released its Statement of Regulatory Priorities , a subsection of which highlights the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)’s priorities on energy issues including hydraulic fracturing. BLM’s... Read More

Tags: fracking , Bureau of Land Management , Natural gas , Department of the Interior , Babst Calland , oil , hydraulic fracturing , gas , energy

Recent California Decisions Favor Solar Developers Over Environment
Posted on 28 Jun 2011 by LexisNexis Emerging Issues Community Staff

By Laura Mulry, Fellow, Center for Climate Change, Columbia Law School April 2011 was an eventful month for massive solar projects in California and their unlikely opponent: the desert tortoise. As climate change, overpopulation, and development place... Read More

Tags: Endangered species , ecosystem , SunPower California Ranch , solar power , Emerging Issues , Bureau of Land Management , California , Climate Change , Laura Mulry , Ivanpah Solar Project , solar , class action , Calico Solar Project , Renewable Energy , Litigation , environmental impact , BrightSource Energy , desert , Mohave Desert , extinction , tortoise