Lawsuit

An appellate court granted the Trump administration’s request to delay a series of lawsuits over proposed rules governing new sources of methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, giving the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) more time to review the rules.

Four environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the federal government to void oil and gas leases and stop high-volume hydraulic fracturing in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest (WNF).

Texas has asked a federal district court for permission to join three states and two industry groups in a lawsuit against the Department of Interior (DOI) over a final rule to reduce venting and flaring from oil and gas operations on public and tribal lands.

Texas has asked a federal district court for permission to join three states and two industry groups in a lawsuit against the Department of Interior (DOI) over a final rule to reduce venting and flaring from oil and gas operations on public and tribal lands.

Pointing to a state Supreme Court ruling last May, Colorado Attorney General (AG) Cynthia Coffman on Tuesday sued Boulder County after warning the board of commissioners that it is acting illegally in extending into May a temporary oil and gas drilling ban.

Three days after two industry groups had done the same, Montana and Wyoming filed a separate lawsuit last week against the Interior Department (DOI) over a final rule to reduce venting and flaring from oil and gas operations on public and tribal lands.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is reportedly sending letters to the state’s coastal parishes, urging them to join litigation against the oil and gas industry within the next 30 days over decades of alleged environmental damage to wetlands. If they don’t, he said the state will sue on their behalf.

A federal judge has decided that the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s (AG) royalties lawsuit against Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. should be heard by a state court.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. and SandRidge Energy Inc. are accused in a $30 million lawsuit of conspiring to “depress the market” to purchase natural gas and oil leaseholds in Kansas.