2010 Energy News Alert Archive

• December 2010
  • Fracking Disclosure: Transparency vs. Proprietary - view
• EPA’s Final Rule for Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases: Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems Rule - view
• EPA’s Release of Greenhouse Gas Guidance on PSD and Title V Permitting - view
• October 2010
  • COGCC Well Permitting Process Under Attack - view
• North Dakota Supreme Court Rules on Real Property Issues - view
• Federal Court Affirms Pinedale Anticline SEIS and Rejects Sage Grouse Arguments - view
• Status Update: Pending Cap and Trade Rules before the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board - view
• Upcoming BLM Competitive Geothermal Lease Sale - view
• USFWS Initiates Strategic Plan to Respond to Climate Change - view
• September 2010
  • Horizontal Drilling and Pore Space Ownership - view

• Wyoming Governor’s Executive Order: A Greater Sage-Grouse Game Changer - view

  • Attachment A - view
  • Attachment B - view
  • Attachment D - view
• Supreme Court Clarifies NEPA Injunction Standard - view
• July 2010
  • Legislation Proposed by House Democrats Seeks Sweeping Restructuring of Federal Onshore and Offshore Energy Programs: The Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2010 - view
• Offshore Provisions of the Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources (CLEAR) Act - view
• The CLEAR Act: Impacts to Renewable Energy Development on Federal Land - view
• FERC NOPR – Interregional Transmission Planning - view
• May 2010
  • Horizontal Drilling And Subsurface Trespass - view
• The Full Story Behind the Montana Coalbed Methane Decision - view
• April 2010
  • BLM Issues “Tim DeChristopher” Lease Sale Safeguard Instruction Memorandum - view
• EPA Expands the Greenhouse Gas Mandatory Reporting Rules - view
• GAO Report: Interior’s Verification Methods Fail to Accurately Track Production - view
• State of Wyoming Wind Energy Update: Proposed Leasing Rules and Wildlife Guidelines - view
• Breakthrough Ruling on the Wyoming Royalty Payment Act - view
• March 2010
  • Draft NEPA Guidance Presents Significant Issues for Industry - view
• Produced Water Rulemaking Concludes; General Assembly Acts; Litigation Commences - view
• Evidence of Fraudulent Concealment Can Be Proven By Common Evidence and On Classwide Basis - view
• February 2010
  • EPA Proposes to Strengthen Ozone Standards - view
• Update on the Proposed Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule - view
• Wyoming BLM Sage-Grouse Guidelines - view
• Wyoming Governor Proposes To Tax Wind - view
• January 2010
  • Salazar: No More Free Candy For Oil And Gas Industry - view
• Interior Board of Land Appeals Denies Royalty-Free Fuel Gas Used Off-Lease - view
• New Mexico State Legislature Proposes Expanded Powers for Natural Resources Trustee to Recover Damages - view

News and Events

• Beatty & Wozniak is pleased to have received first-tier rankings by U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” 2010 in the following categories:  National:  Oil & Gas Law, Colorado: Energy Law, Native American Law, Natural Resources Law, and Oil & Gas Law, and Utah: Oil & Gas Law.

• The Firm congratulates Bill Sparks in passing the Wyoming Bar. Bill joins the ranks of seven other Beatty & Wozniak attorneys licensed in the State of Wyoming.

• Beatty & Wozniak help Industry win long-standing multidistrict False Claims Act case against Jack Grynberg - View the decision

• 4 years in a row - Matt Crockett selected as a 2009 Utah Legal Elite for Energy/Natural Resources

• Fred MacDonald selected for inclusion in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Oil & Gas Law.