On June 27, 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the final version of a long-anticipated rule defining the scope…
After testing new rules in a select number of Colorado districts over the past few years, on July 1, 2015,…
On June 29, in a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court held in Michigan v. EPA that the Environmental…
On April 14, 2015, the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission unanimously approved several changes to its drilling regulations, which…
On June 1, 2015, in an 8-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Abercrombie & Fitch and for a…
On May 29, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld the entry of judgment for defendant…
In an apparent attempt to head-off legislative changes to the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) that have been threatened by Congressional…
BLM’s new fracking rule is scheduled to take effect on June 24, 2015, but the Western Energy Alliance and Independent…
Utah’s Transfer of Public Lands Act (“TPLA”) demands that the federal government “extinguish” its title to more than 30 million…
Despite the fact that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management lease sale covering lands in Wyoming conducted on May 5,…