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Conservationists Sue To Block TransCanada Pipeline
Posted on 7 Oct 2011 by LexisNexis Emerging Issues Community Staff

OMAHA, Neb. - (AP) Three conservation groups are suing to halt preliminary work on a proposed 1,700-mile-long oil pipeline from the tar sands of western Canada to Texas Gulf Coast refineries. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Nebraska contends... Read More

Tags: Canada , Nebraska , Ken Salazar , Hillary Clinton , oil , groundwater , Litigation , Nebraska Sandhills , U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service , lawsuit , TransCanada pipeline , Ogallala Aquifer , conservationists , U.S. State Department , Gulf Coast , tar sands , energy

Fulbright & Jaworski LLP Fracking Blog: Federal vs. State Regulation
Posted on 8 Nov 2012 by Norton Rose Fulbright

On September 10, 2012, members of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Natural Resources wrote to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, requesting that the Bureau of Land Management's proposed regulations governing hydraulic fracturing... Read More

Tags: federal lands , Wyoming , fracking , Fulbright &amp , U.S. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources , Jaworski , Ken Salazar , oil , state regulation , energy law , hydraulic fracturing , Bureau of Land Management' , BLM , gas , federal regulation , energy

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

AP Impact: Gulf Oil Industry-Government Ties Persist
Posted on 28 Jul 2011 by LexisNexis Emerging Issues Community Staff

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (AP) Ties between offshore oil and gas companies and the agency that regulates them persist, nearly a year after the Obama administration announced an overhaul of ethics rules to deter such cozy relationships, documents obtained by... Read More

Tags: Gulf Oil spill , Bureau of Ocean Energy Management , Ken Salazar , Deepwater Horizon , Minerals Management Service , T Offshore Inc. , offshore oil , Ankor Energy , Shell , Michael Bromwich , Chevon , Island Operating Co. , inspector general , BP , oil drilling , Hilcorp Energy , Gulf of Mexico

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