2024-2025 Scholarship Recipient Xiran Celine Yang

2024-2025 Scholarship Recipient Xiran Celine Yang

Xiran Celine Yang, a recipient of the Mary Sue Schulberg and EMLF General Fund Scholarships, is going into her third year at Southern Methodist University. Yang thanked Professors James Coleman, Anna Mance and Monica Ehrman for their mentorship throughout her...

Kevin Colosimo Receives 2024 John L. McClaugherty Award

The Energy & Mineral Law Foundation (EMLF) is proud to announce it has presented its 2024 John L. McClaugherty Award to Kevin L. Colosimo.  The McClaugherty Award is the Foundation’s highest honor and recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of energy and...

Annual Institute Hailed A Success for Content and Location

The Energy & Mineral Law held its 45th Annual Institute June 9-11, 2024, in Savannah, Georgia, drawing the largest attendance at an Annual Institute since before the COVID pandemic. Executive Director Anna Fletcher noted: “The attendance this year was greater than...

Welcome 2024-2025 EMLF President Travis Brannon

I am a Partner with K&L Gates LLP in Pittsburgh, PA where I focus on commercial and energy litigation. As a trial lawyer, I regularly assist clients with matters where the law is unclear and most of the easy options have already been tried. As a result, a positive...

Expansion of CCS Facing Delays in Illinois

Illinois is home to the nation’s first, and so far, only operating CCS project. That project is an Archer Daniels Midland operation that sequesters CO2 captured from the company’s ethanol production facilities near Decatur, Illinois. This CCS project began operations...