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New Texas Railroad Commission Rules: Challenges and Permitting for the E&P Industry

On December 17, 2024, the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) adopted new comprehensive regulations governing the handling, storage, treatment, and disposal of oil and gas waste. The rules were published January 3, 2025, in...more

Oil and Gas Company Lawyers: Navigating the ESG Landscape

INTRODUCTION - For many years, oil and gas companies, or O&Gs, and their lawyers have been living with the environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, movement and its ever-increasing demands on the industry....more

Revised Memorandum of Understanding Brings Further TCEQ Oversight to the Texas Oil Patch

Background - In 1982 a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) was crafted between the Texas Railroad Commission (“RRC”) and a predecessor to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) outlining the division of...more

EPA’s E&P New Owner Audit Program: Kind Of Interesting – Perhaps; Kind Of Practical – Perhaps Not

On March 29, 2019, EPA issued its Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Facilities New Owner Audit Program (“Audit Program”). The Audit Program is voluntary and intended to encourage new upstream facility owners to audit,...more

Oil Patch to Face Heightened Environmental Scrutiny

Recent regulatory pronouncements indicate the oil patch will continue to face heavy regulatory scrutiny in 2018 and beyond. Recent action at both the federal and state levels will put increasing pressure on the exploration...more

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