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Oil, Gas Trade Groups Join Defendants In NEPA Exclusion Suit
Posted on 23 Sep 2010 by HB Litigation Conferences

MOBILE, Ala. - Oil and gas trade associations who stand to lose drilling rights have been allowed to intervene as defendants in an environmental group's effort to halt drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico under an exclusion to the National Environmental... Read More

Tags: Independent Petroleum Association of America , drilling , NEPA , International Association of Drilling Contractors , drilling permits , personal injury , Defenders of Wildlife v. Minerals Management Service , environmental group , Ken Salazar , new lawsuit filings , MMS , U.S. Department of the Interior , Defenders of Wildlife , U.S. Oil & Gas Association , Oil and gas , Minerals Management Service , Litigation , lawsuit , National Environmental Policy Act , torts , American Petroleum Institute , Gulf of Mexico

High Court Refuses To Hear Case Over Rejected Offshore Drilling Permit
Posted on 25 Apr 2011 by Shane Dilworth

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on April 25 denied ATP Oil & Gas Corp.'s petition for certiorari seeking review of a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling affirming the August 2006 denial of an application that would... Read More

Tags: Supreme Court , Rita , ATP Oil & Gas Cop. v. Department of the Interior , ATP , MMS , Mineral Management Service , Department of the Interior , hurricanes , Litigation , outer continental shelf , Fifth Circuit , offshore drilling , Gulf of Mexico , Katrina

Judge Halts Oil, Gas Development On Chukchi Sea
Posted on 22 Jul 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - (AP) A federal judge on Wednesday stopped companies from developing oil and gas wells on billions of dollars in leases off Alaska's northwest coast, saying the federal government failed to follow environmental law before it sold... Read More

Tags: Sean Parnell , Inupiat Eskimo , Chukchi Sea , Royal Dutch Shell , Earthjustice , Judge Ralph Beistline , MMS , Native Village of Point Hope , Alaska , Center for Biological Diversity , environment , Obama , Minerals Management Service , oil , wells , Litigation , Caroline Cannon , Shell Gulf of Mexico , lawsuit , offshore drilling , gas , Gulf of Mexico , Arctic Ocean