Energy News Alert

• 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
• 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
• 10th Circuit Decision Offers “Clause” For Alarm (Pooling/Unitization, That Is) - view

• Climate Change Litigation Begins to Take Shape - view

• Right of Way Condemnation by Private Companies Recent Colorado Court of Appeals Decision - view

• USGS Releases Sage-Grouse Studies - view

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Advisory Committee Releases Draft Policy Recommendations For Wind Energy Development Projects - view

• EPA Finalized The Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule - view
• 2009 Statutory Changes for Oil and Gas in North Dakota - view
• Ninth Circuit Strikes Down Land Swap - view
• Colorado Roadless Rule: Another Draft, More Public Input - view
• Senate Bill Proposes Federal CCS Liability Scheme - view
• Update: Developing Regulation of Greenhouse Gases - view
• Utah Sage-Grouse Update - view
• Implied Duty of Reasonable Development - view
• Clinton Roadless Rule Strikes Out With Federal Judge in Wyoming - view
• Western Governors' Association Report on Western Renewable Energy Zones - view

Other News

• 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.

• Michael Beatty appeared on "Colorado State of Mind" discussing how Colorado's energy industry adapts to new state regulations and to new circumstances in the economy of the state, the nation and the world. The show was televised on December 19th on Rocky Mountain PBS.
  Click here to view the episode online or Click here for the news release.

• DENVER BUSINESS JOURNAL - July 14, 2008 "Beatty blasts Ritter policy" July 9, 2008 COGA Speech - Click Here to Read the Whole Story
• COLORADO SEVERANCE TAX - Colorado Decides Ballot Issue Debate: Amendment 58 (Sept 15, 2008) featuring Michael Beatty
  Click Here to Watch the Debate

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