Keith B. Hall is the Nesser Family Chair in Energy Law, Campanile Charities Professor of Energy Law, and John P. Laborde Endowed Professorship in Energy Law 3 and 4Director of the Energy Law Center; Director of the Mineral Law Institute and Professor of Law at...
Registration Open For Safety Seminar
The premiere conference on mining safety is EMLF’s annual Safety Seminar. Tyler Fields, Vice Present-Law for Ramaco Resources, describes the Safety Seminar as “a can’t miss event for anyone involved in workplace safety and health law.” This year’s Safety Seminar will...
2025-2026 Scholarship Recipient Jared Mazezka
Jared Mazezka is going into his third year at WVU and is a recipient of the EMLF General Fund Scholarship. He has been working as a landman in the Appalachian Basin since 2011, an occupation that has offered him the flexibility to support his family while living in...
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...
Interview with 45th Annual Institute Co-Chair Jamie Chapman
Current association: Antero Resources Corporation and Antero Midstream Corporation Past associations: Steptoe & Johnson PLLC Law School: West Virginia University College of Law Undergraduate: West Virginia University Spouse: Dillon Mohr Children: Fur-babies (1...
Interview with 45th Annual Institute Co-Chair Tyler Adkins
Current association: Ramaco Resources, Inc. – SVP – Law and Assistant Secretary Past associations: Blackhawk Mining, ArcelorMittal Princeton Coal, and Steptoe & Johnson Law School: Salmon P. Chase College of Law at NKU Undergraduate: Northern Kentucky University...
Interview with Kevin Douglass
Interview with 45th Annual Institute Chair Kevin Douglass Current association: Shareholder, Babst Calland Law School: Duquesne University School of Law Undergraduate: Mount Union College, B.A. in History Spouse: Pamela Children: Kathryn, Julia and Margaret...