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The Texas Supreme Court, in Myers-Woodward, LLC v. Undergrounds Services Markham, LLC, — S.W.3d —, No. 22-0878, 2025 WL 1415892 (Tex. May 16, 2025), held that surface owners own subsurface salt caverns...

On March 30, 2011, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Birds (MOU).

The SEC’s conflict mineral rules have been a topic of hot debate among not only manufacturing industry groups, but also retail industry groups.

The petitioners have until February 8, 2016 to petition the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari seeking its review of the Decisions.

If you had the chance to read one of my previous articles titled Rare Earth Minerals and China's Global Dominance, https://www.braumillerlaw.com/rare-earth-minerals-and-chinas-global-dominance/ you'd see how much China dominates in possessing these rare earth mineral deposits of gold in their soil.

Big mining projects offer big opportunities.

During President Trump's recent trip to Asia, the United States signed "Frameworks" with Japan and Australia...

On June 27, 2016, the SEC adopted final rules requiring disclosure by resource extraction issuers of payments made to governments for the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals.

Mine operators are accustomed to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) regularly being on-site for inspections, but the agency can also conduct enforcement activity in other ways.

Two words sum up where the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is as 2021 comes to a close and mine operators prepare for 2022: transition period.

As we close out 2023 and look to 2024, the time is right to take stock of developments in mine safety and health law over the past year and consider what may be on the horizon.

This decision will likely be dispositive in most DMA cases, because few surface owner plaintiffs have even attempted to comply with the requirements of the 2006 DMA.

On 20 May 2020, the Queensland government passed the Mineral and Energy Resources and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2020 (Qld) ("Act").

The BLM approves mining infrastructure and issues mining leases within much of the Powder River Basin area. Id. at 1227.

Canada historically has made significant foreign direct investments ("FDI"), reportedly investing 4% of its GDP outside of Canada. Historically, these outflows have been directed primarily...

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia rejected an industry challenge to a rule issued in August 2012 by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which implemented certain "conflict mineral" disclosure requirements mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.

Rob Day, Partner and Co-Founder at Spring Lane Capital, explores how the urgent need for power capacity is fundamentally reshaping data center investment strategy, from the surge in microgrid development to the strategic risks of over-reliance on natural gas. He reveals why the economics of battery-powered microgrids are closer to viability than most realize and shares a practical playbook for developers looking to start consuming power today while building tomorrow's AI infrastructure.

The United States imports nearly all of 13 critical minerals essential to national defense and advanced manufacturing, creating strategic vulnerabilities. Federal agencies are now moving to unlock domestic sources by recovering these minerals from abandoned mine tailings, which contain significant concentrations of rare earth elements, cobalt, and other strategic materials while offering environmental remediation benefits.