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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

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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