EPA proposed New Source Performance Standards under the Clean Air Act on August 18 that would reduce methane emissions from upstream and some midstream operations. 

EPA released proposed pretreatment standards for shale gas and shale oil operations as well as operations targeting other types of tight formations on March 31. 

BLM released the final rule to regulate HF on federal and tribal lands on March 20.  The rule was published in the Federal Register on

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released its draft final assessment of the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing (“HF”) on drinking water on June 4.

The Environmental Defense Center sued the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) on

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) latest plan is designed to regulate methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry. The plan aims to

Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), sponsor of H.R. 702 which will end a 40-year ban on the export of domestic crude oil, said the bill will

August 7, the Department of Energy gave approval to American LNG Marketing LLC to export domestic LNG to nations that do not have Free Trade

Lifting the decades old ban on U.S. crude oil exports would support hundreds of thousands of new jobs within the energy sector while non-energy producing