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EPA Signals Approval of Texas’ Class VI Injection Well Primacy: Streamlining Carbon Capture and Climate Action

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In a significant move for environmental policy and energy innovation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed to approve Texas’ application to administer its own Class VI underground injection well...more

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Texas Legislature Tilts Against Windmills: Is This the End of Wind Energy on the Texas Coast?

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Much has been written in recent weeks about how the renewable energy industry in Texas dodged a bullet — several bullets actually — when three high-profile bills targeting the industry failed to pass in the recent legislative...more

Gray Reed

Texas Capitol Report - An update on the 89th Texas Legislative Session

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Water Infrastructure - Senate Bill 7 & House Joint Resolution (HJR) 7 created the administrative structure and framework to fund water projects over the next two decades with a $20 billion package. One billion dollars will...more

Cozen O'Connor

The State AG Report – 05.08.2025

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Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: • California to Repeal Clean Fleets Regulation Following...more

McGinnis Lochridge

Drowning in Liability: Court Extends "Waste" Rule to SWD Operator; but preserves RPO defense

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In a watershed ruling, the El Paso Court of Appeals extends "waste" liability under the Nat. Res. Code to commercial disposal well operator—potentially increasing exposure for this critical wastewater industry—while...more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

Preparing for a Wave of Citizen Suits in Texas – Ten Tips for Protecting Sensitive Information from Disclosure Under the Texas...

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As earlier reported, companies should expect environmental non-governmental organizations (eNGOs) to file a barrage of citizen suits to supplement the rollback of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforcement cases...more

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Texas BACT Is a Fact: The Texas Supreme Court Unpacks the Texas Clean Air Act’s BACT Definition

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Port Arthur Community Action Network (PACAN) v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality et al. (Tex. Feb. 14, 2025) presented the Texas Supreme Court with a unique opportunity to provide defined guideposts to understand...more

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Texas Supreme Court Will Review Produced Water Case

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Who owns produced water in Texas?  And what is produced water anyway – oil and gas waste and part of the mineral estate, or groundwater and part of the surface estate?  We may be closer to an answer to these questions now...more

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Texas Railroad Commission’s New Environmental Rules: A Step Toward Sustainability or Business as Usual?

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In 1984, while Ronald Reagan was securing a landslide reelection and Apple introduced the Macintosh, the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) last updated the state’s primary oil and gas waste regulations. Now, four decades...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Texas Oil's Future: Between Biden's Ban and Trump's Promises

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With just days remaining in office, President Joe Biden has cast uncertainty over President-Elect Donald Trump's campaign promises of U.S. energy dominance. On Jan. 6, 2025, President Biden announced an executive action to...more

Oliva Gibbs

Water Ya Gonna Do When the EPA Comes for You?

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) recently announced that it will be taking a hard look at the Texas Railroad Commission’s (“RRC”) enforcement of injection well regulatory practices (or the lack thereof).  The...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Three Unfolding Cases Could Shape Future Energy Litigation, and Perhaps Business Practices

A stream of judicial decisions in the pipeline will have important implications for the energy industry. The three cases discussed below are among those that energy litigators and industry professionals are watching in 2024....more

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Governor Abbott says Texas isn't bound by the oldest Federal environmental law. He's about to learn what he should have learned in...

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Law 360 is reporting on yesterday's hearing in the United States' litigation against the State of Texas to cause the removal of an unpermitted “marine barrier” placed by the State of Texas in the Rio Grande River. Putting...more

Nossaman LLP

Unified Agenda Foretells Species Listings, Critical Habitat Designations for Texas

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On December 6, the Biden Administration released the Fall 2023 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Unified Agenda), which lists the regulatory and deregulatory actions the various federal administrative...more

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A Survey of New Texas Environmental and Regulatory Laws Enacted in the 88th Session

This is a brief survey of many of the environmental and regulatory laws passed by the Texas Legislature and signed by the Governor in the 88th Regular Session of the Legislature, which ended in May 2023, although a special...more

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A Court-Side Seat: An End-of-Year Environmental Update

As 2022 draws to a close, here is a brief description of recent environmental and regulatory law rulings, as well as new federal rulemaking proceedings....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

State and Industry Leaders Highlight Clout and Environmental Stewardship at Virtual Texas Energy Day

During the 2021 Texas Energy Day, hosted by Todd Staples of the Texas Oil and Gas Association at the Texas state capitol, event speakers aimed to strengthen support for the oil and gas industry and impart a message of...more

Clark Hill PLC

Air Permit Compliance for the Texas Oil & Gas Industry – What is TCEQ’s “Find It and Fix It” Initiative?

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Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Creates the Find It and Fix It Program (FIFI): A Permian Basin Only, Short-term Option for Penalty-Free Resolution of Oil & Gas Air Quality Violations - The TCEQ Office of...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

EPA Surrenders in the Regional Haze Dispute With Texas

As I noted when the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed EPA’s disapproval of Texas’s regional haze plan, EPA had pretty much no chance of winning. Although the parties then stayed the litigation to talk settlement, EPA...more

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