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Conservation groups sued the Trump administration in federal court on Tuesday for opening up federal lands in California to hydraulic fracturing. Conservation groups including Biological Diversity, National Parks Conservation Association, Natural Resources Defense Council, Patagonia Works, and the Sierra Club claim that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) failed to “adequately analyze the serious environmental [...]

Oregon’s House of Representatives approved a bill Monday that would ban the use of hydraulic fracturing for the exploration of or production of oil and gas in Oregon. The bill was passed by a vote of 42-12. If passed by the Senate and signed into law, the bill would ban fracking until January 2, 2030. [...]

The UK High Court ruled Wednesday that the government’s Guidance on Fracking is unlawful. Ruling in favor of Talk Fracking, an environmental group, Justice Dove held that it was unlawful for the government not to take scientific evidence and material into account when creating its guidance. Dove stated that the scientific evidence were ‘materially relevant [...]

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: Hawaii Governor David Ige signed HB 2739 on Thursday, also known as the Our Choice, Our Care Act. The Attorneys General from 14states, led by...

A Pennsylvania appellate judge on Monday distinguished the natural gas extraction practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," from conventional drilling property rights and held that fracking is not subject to the same "rules of capture." In a...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state government must act as the trustee for public natural resources under the Environmental Rights Amendment. The court ruled that royalties gathered from oil and gas leases on...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday reforming the previous administration's energy policies. Trump stated that previous policies and regulations became burdensome to the energy industry and that by altering these regulations and...

A Dutch court in the northern city of Assen ruled Wednesday that the Netherlands Petroleum Company (NAM) is liable for the emotional suffering of claimants whose homes were damaged from earthquakes caused by drilling. NAM...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Wyoming ruled Tuesday that the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) "lacked Congressional authority to promulgate" regulations concerning fracking...

The Israel High Court of Justice on Sunday decided to strike down a deal that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made last December to initiate development of an offshore natural gas field. The natural gas field...