By Keith Hall Approximately 170 energy professionals, guests and law students on Schetroma Travel Grants attended EMLF’s 44th Annual Energy & Mineral Law Institute in Charleston, South Carolina. Attendance increased for the third year in a row, as participation...
By Mark Heath As the Fall Symposium -- f/k/a the Kentucky Mineral Law Conference -- approaches its 50th year in 2025, the conference, to be hosted at Lexington's all-new Central Bank Center, has become one of the longest running continuous programs on Energy Law in...
Originally appeared as a Perkins Coie Update on June 8, 2023 By: Edward (Ted) Boling, Thomas C. Jensen and Kerensa Gimre President Joe Biden signed into law the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (FRA), colloquially referred to as the Debt Ceiling Bill, on June 3,...
EMLF asked members who have been to Charleston, SC some favorite things they plan to do when they visit Charleston for the Annual Institute, June 18-20. LSU professor Keith Hall, a member of the newsletter committee, has been encouraging his students to take advantage...
Only a few weeks remain before the 44th Annual Institute and this year’s program chairs are continuing a tradition nearly fifty years in the making, working hard with the planning committee to put together an excellent agenda. Click here for the full agenda and...
EMLF traveled to Pittsburgh on April 18 and Charleston, West Virginia on April 25 on to present regional legal energy updates for CLEs over lunch. The Pittsburgh workshop was held at the Union Trust Building downtown, and Charleston's was held in the offices of...
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 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...
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...
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.,...