Originally appeared as a K&L Gates US Environment, Land, and Natural Resources Alert on May 8, 2023 By: Brian S. Montag, Gail H. Conenello and Malory M. Pascarella On Monday 17 April 2023, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (the Department)...
Register for the Annual Institute
Register for EMLF's 44th Annual Institute, to be held June 18-20, 2023, at The Charleston Place in gorgeous Charleston, SC. Co-Chaired by Alexandria Lay of Steptoe & Johnson PLLC and Todd Myers of Blackhawk Mining LLC. Click here for more information and to...
Call for McClaugherty Nominations
Nominations for EMLF's McClaugherty Award have been extended through May 19, 2023 and can be submitted by any EMLF member. Given since 2004, the award recognizes an individual for outstanding contribution to EMLF and to the field of energy and mineral law. It's named...
Court in West Virginia Rejects Claims Coal Lessee Breached Implied Covenants
Keith B. Hall, LSU Law Center Freeport Gas Coal Trust (Freeport) is the current lessor under a 1965 coal lease (Lease) covering more than 3,000 acres in Doddridge and Harrison Counties, West Virginia. Freeport Gas Coal Trust v. Harrison County Coal Resources, Inc.,...
Interview with Elizabeth B. Elmore
Current association: Jackson Kelly PLLC Past associations: Steptoe & Johnson; Reed Brothers, LP; Elmore & Elmore; Lane Law Firm; Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love Law School: Washington & Lee University School of Law Undergraduate: Converse College...
Interview with Bridget K. Sasson
Current law firm or association: Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C. Law School: Duquesne University School of Law Undergraduate: University of Pittsburgh Current home town: Pittsburgh Favorite bar or restaurant in current home city? Why? Bakersfield. Few things...
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Call for Nominations
The Energy & Mineral Law Foundation is extending a call for nominations for its Board of Trustees and Executive Committee. Please submit nominations by May 1, 2023, to EMLF Executive Director Anna Girard Fletcher at anna@emlf.org. Self-nominations are accepted....
Interview with Timothy J. Hagerty
Current association: Frost Brown Todd LLP (Louisville, KY) Past associations: Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. (Washington, D.C.) Law School: Yale Law School (1994) Undergraduate: University of Louisville (B.A., 1991) Spouse: Tara Hagerty (Family Court Judge; Married 28+...
Interview with Brooke N. Zentmeyer
Current law firm or association: Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP Law School: The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, J.D., 2022 Undergraduate: University of Notre Dame, B.A., 2019 Current hometown: Columbus, Ohio Favorite bar or restaurant in current...