Joshua C. Zive: Unfortunately, delays and burdens associated with CFIUS are playing an increasingly significant and frustrating role in energy transactions. These delays frustrate the intended role of CFIUS review and make it unnecessarily difficult for energy transactions to be designed and executed in an efficient manner.
Hannah J. Wiseman: Public concerns have often focused on the chemicals used in the fracturing process, yet federal regulations requiring disclosure of chemicals are weak. Industry—along with state regulators—developed a website that enabled chemical disclosure…
William Bumpers & Paulina Williams: On August 7, 2012, the Sixth Circuit issued an opinion that has significant Clean Air Act regulatory implications for oil and gas development projects…
Mark R. Haskell & Levi McAllister: Shale gas has the potential to create new producing regions, but it requires the creation of new infrastructure or the redesign and redeployment of existing infrastructure…
Susan Sakmar: According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2012, U.S. natural gas production is expected to increase almost twenty-nine percent…
