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...
Interview with Tim Gresham
Past associations: Staff Attorney at The Pittston Company Coal Group, 1981-1982; Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the Virginia Attorney General, 1983-1987. Law School: University of Tennessee College of Law Undergraduate: Morehead State University...
Interview with Gillian Flick
Current association: Member, Steptoe & Johnson, Global President – Women’s Energy Network Past associations: Past President of Women’s Energy Network – Pittsburgh (2021) Law School: Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University Undergraduate: Washington...
Interview with Drew McCallister
Current association: Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary – Greylock Energy, Charleston, WV Past associations: Alpha Natural Resources, Patriot Coal, Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC Law School: Washington & Lee Undergraduate: West Virgina...
Iowa federal court holds that local ordinance restricting CO2 pipelines was preempted
Keith B. HallLSU Law School In 2022, the Shelby County Board of Supervisors (“Shelby County Board”) enacted Ordinance No. 2022-4 in response to the plans of Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC (“Summit”) to develop an interstate network of CO2 pipelines, part of which would...