By: Christopher T. Kuhman, associate and member of the Pipeline and Hazmat Safety Group, Babst Calland, Washington, D.C. Background The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is an independent federal agency that regulates the interstate transmission of natural...
D.C. District Court Vacates Offshore Lease Sale
By Keith B. Hall, LSU Law Center The United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued a decision on January 27, 2022 vacating Lease Sale 257, the largest sale of federal offshore oil and gas leases in history. Friends of the Earth v. Haaland, 2022 WL...
EMLF Member Spotlight: Kara Mundy
EMLF Member Spotlight: Kara Mundy Current law firm or association: Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLPLaw School: The Ohio State University Moritz College of LawUndergraduate: The Ohio State UniversitySpouse: ChristopherChildren: Felicity (4) Wallace (3)Current home...
Interview with Lucas Liben
Current law firm or association: Reed Smith LLPPast associations (if any): None!Law School: Georgetown University Law CenterUndergraduate: University of PittsburghSpouse (if any): Farren LibenChildren (if any): We have three boys: Avi (8), Levi (4), and Asher (almost...
Erin Magee receives 2021 John L. McClaugherty Award
The Energy & Mineral Law Foundation (EMLF) is proud to announce it has presented its 2021 John L. McClaugherty Award to Erin E. Magee. Erin was nominated for this award by multiple EMLF members, including her colleagues at Jackson Kelly, where she has spent her...
EMLF to hold Fall Symposium October 12-14
The EMLF Fall Symposium, formerly the Kentucky Mineral Law Conference, will be held in Lexington, Kentucky October 12-14, 2021. EMLF is excited to welcome the Honorable Shelley Moore Capito, United States Senator from West Virginia, as our keynote speaker. Senator...
Interview with Armando Benincasa
Current association: Member, Steptoe & Johnson; joined the firm in 2002 Past associations: West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, 1995-2002 Law School: University of Virginia Undergraduate: Washington & Lee, B.A. Spouse: Marcy Children: Bianca...
Interview with Tiffany Culp
Current law firm or association: San Jacinto Minerals, LLC, a parent company of Three Rivers Royalty, LLC Past associations: EQT Production Company Law School: Western New England University School of Law and an MBA from Waynesburg University Undergraduate:...
Interview with Kevin Colosimo
Current association: Member, Frost Brown Todd Law School: Duquesne University, J.D., 1997; Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Masters of Laws (LL.M.), 2020. Undergraduate: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, B.A.,...
Interview with Jesse Parrish
Current association: Blackhawk Mining, LLC Past associations: Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP (now Dentons Bingham Greenebaum)Law School: University of KentuckyUndergraduate: University of Kentucky, b.b.a. Finance and EconomicsSpouse: Anne Sydney Parrish Children: Winnie...