SAN ANTONIO - A shareholder on Sept. 16 filed a securities class action lawsuit against a provider of hydraulic fracturing and complementary services to leading upstream oil and gas companies, certain of its senior executives and others in Texas federal... Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A clerk in the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals on Sept. 13 issued an order telling the parties in a pipeline dispute to file briefs concerning how a similar, related pipeline lawsuit affects the case at hand (Atlantic... Read More
PHILADELPHIA - A panel of the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 10 vacated and remanded a district court ruling and held that claims brought by a pipeline against the state of New Jersey should be dismissed because the pipeline company does... Read More
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A Native American tribal group and advocates for the environment on Sept. 5 filed a brief in New Mexico federal court, arguing that a hydraulic fracturing trade group "failed to establish" that it should be allowed to intervene... Read More
WICHITA, Kan. - A federal judge in Kansas on Sept. 3 dismissed two separate counterclaims brought by hydraulic fracturing operators against a gas storage company and partially granted the storage company's motion to exclude the companies' expert... Read More
DENVER - A federal judge in Colorado on Sept. 4 denied a petition for a writ of mandamus sought by residents, environmental organizations and nuclear workers advocacy groups that wanted to order the U.S. government to provide records that pertain to a... Read More
HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) on Aug. 29 announced that it fined Sunoco Pipeline LP $319,461 for discharges of hazardous chemicals related to the construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline, which is scheduled... Read More
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. - A federal judge in West Virginia on Aug. 29 denied a hydraulic fracturing company's motion to alter a judgment issued by a jury in favor of a leaseholder couple that alleged breach of contract, but stayed the execution of the judgment... Read More
RICHMOND, Va. - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) on Aug. 29 filed a brief in the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals arguing that a stay sought by groups that oppose the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would carry hydraulically fractured oil... Read More
SAN FRANCISCO - The state of Wyoming on Aug. 26 moved in California federal court for dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the states of California and Wyoming against the Trump administration related to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) revision... Read More
RICHMOND, Va. - Environmental groups on Aug. 21 moved for a stay of an opinion from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) related to the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), which would carry hydraulically fractured oil and gas through parts of West Virginia... Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. - An environmental group on Aug. 21 filed a complaint against the Trump administration under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to compel compliance with the group's request for communications... Read More
SALT LAKE CITY - The Trump administration on Aug. 8 moved in Utah federal court to dismiss two consolidated cases challenging federal hydraulic fracturing leases, contending that the district court lacks jurisdiction and that one of the groups' cases... Read More
DENVER - A federal judge in Colorado on Aug. 5 approved a consent order that settled a trade secret violation case between a hydraulic fracturing company and its former employees as the company agreed to pay $1,625,000 in unpaid compensation and the former... Read More
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A group of Native American mineral rights owners filed a brief in New Mexico federal court on Aug. 6 seeking to intervene in a lawsuit brought by environmental groups against the Trump administration for alleged violations of federal... Read More