BakerHostetler today filed a request for preliminary injunction against the final rule the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued to regulate hydraulic fracturing on federal and Indian lands.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released its much anticipated draft regulations addressing subsequent well operations, including hydraulic fracturing.

The Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") recently issued a policy to prevent wildlife mortalities in open, uncapped hollow pipes used on public land.

For the better part of the last decade, oil and natural gas production from domestic wells has increased steadily.

On October 27, 2011, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the US Department of Energy (DOE) made available the much anticipated targeted Supplement to the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States (Draft Supplement).

On May 16, 2013, the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its long awaited re-draft of rules on hydraulic fracturing on federal and Indian land.

Last week, a federal district court in Nevada ruled that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) failed to adequately explain a decision to authorize a proposed wind energy project.

During the Obama Administration, the Bureau of Land Management issued the Hydraulic Fracturing on Federal and Indian Lands Final Rule and the 2016 Methane and Waste Prevention Rule.

In this episode of the Legal Innovators Interview Series, Buchanan's Hala Sandridge talks with Gerard Solis, general counsel at University of South Florida.

In the past few weeks, the Trump Administration's Department of Interior (DOI) has taken significant steps to roll back several environmental policies and/or rules affecting the energy industry.

In December, the government announced that the UK-wide COVID-19 inquiry would be chaired by Baroness Heather Hallett, a former Lady Justice of the Court of Appeal.

Professional & Financial Risks Partner Alex Traill joins Mike Lea, Partner Global Professional & Financial Risks at Lockton to discuss the effect of Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance pressures on directors and officers.

Last week, Speakers in the House of Lords debated e-scooters: notably their safety and whether more stringent regulation is needed amid claims that they are posing a danger to pedestrians.

With £1.3 billion being paid out to customers during 2018, fire is one of the most expensive categories of property insurance claims.

The Parliaments in Westminster and Strasbourg will examine separate (and slightly different) sets of proposals for restricting the scope of motor insurance to something a lot closer to that which applied before the Vnuk decision in 2014.

The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) Bill passed its final Commons stages this morning. The speeches during just over an hour's debate again showed broad cross-party support for its core proposal...

The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insuance) Act 2022 was passed yesterday when it received Royal Assent. An identically named Act applying to Northern Ireland also secured Royal Assent this week.

The long-awaited appeal in Cam v Belsner concerning what and how solicitors can charge their clients started and then stopped abruptly this week. Despite being foreshadowed in the appellant's Grounds of Appeal...

Exoskeletons are commonly seen in spinal cord injury cases. However a recent study from researchers at the University of Utah has considered their use for patients with an above knee amputation.

On 26 January 2022, the Law Commission of England & Wales and the Scottish Law Commission published the final report in their joint, three-year investigation into the measures necessary to reform...