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Also on Friday, SEC Acting Chairman Piwowar published a separate Statement.

After 41 years in the mining industry and three months as the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health, David Zatezalo, has begun to publicly outline his vision for the Mine Safety...

The federal government has restructured its approach to critical mineral funding in 2025, moving from a fragmented, agency-by-agency system...

On January 24, 2018, FERC staff directed Rover Pipeline LLC ("Rover") to stop horizontal directional drilling ("HDD") activity—which involves using a drill to bore horizontally underground and drilling mud ...

Recent Texas royalty cases seem to feature litigants on the fixed royalty side trying, more often than not in vain, to escape the clutches of Van Dyke v. Navigator and Hysaw v. Dawkins.

Welcome to the latest edition of the Mayer Brown Global Mining Update which focuses on some of the key legal issues and developments

On September 15, 2016 the Ohio Supreme Court issued three opinions providing long-awaited clarity to Ohio's Dormant Mineral Act ("ODMA" or "Act").

On the heels of President Trump's January 20, 2025, Executive Order "Unleashing American Energy" promoting domestic energy and resource independence...

The administration has elevated critical minerals to a national security issue, launching trade negotiations and regulatory actions under Section 232, with tariffs still on the table.

Contractors carrying out work on mining leases in Australia have had their commercial position weakened by a recent decision in the Supreme Court in Queensland.

On January 25, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) revealed plans for the House to "ax" Rule 13q-1...

On April 22, Congressman Mark Amodei, R-Nevada, along with 29 original cosponsors, introduced the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2015...

The Texas Supreme Court has settled the issue of who owns the voids, known as salt caverns, created in subsurface salt formations (whether naturally occurring or caused as a result of salt mining operations).

Absent an agreement otherwise, the Supreme Court of Texas has held that "the surface owner, and not the mineral lessee, owns the possessory rights...

New York's 2010 moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, culminating in Governor Andrew Cuomo's formal ban of the practice in his state on December 17, 2014, made many large waves in the political, legal, and public arenas, the residual effects of which have yet to ebb completely.

It is no secret that now is a turbulent time for the coal industry in Wyoming and across the county.

On August 22, 2011, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) issued an emergency rule outlining several new requirements governing the development of horizontal wells in the Marcellus Shale.

On July 2, 2019, petitioners WildEarth Guardians, joined by other conservation groups, filed a petition for review in the U.S.