Babst Calland’s Energy and Natural Resources Practice Group represents energy companies across the country on a variety of matters. Energy clients receive support from our highly focused, multidisciplinary team of energy attorneys that provides a wide range of legal services to clients engaged in the coal, mining, oil and gas, and renewable energy industries.
Babst Calland’s energy attorneys work collaboratively with in-house counsel, executives, and outside advisors to provide timely and cost-effective legal strategy and representation. Our energy clients come to us for our decades of experience on environmental, land use, pipeline safety, construction, litigation, energy title, transactions, real estate, and employment and labor matters.
Babst Calland represents energy companies across the country. We understand each geographic footprint and tailor legal strategies accordingly, with a deep knowledge of state regulation and local jurisdictions. Our attorneys are key advisors on a myriad of issues related to transactions, due diligence, state and federal regulatory matters, local government challenges, lease disputes, royalty interest determinations, and title examination.
As one of the nation’s most respected energy law firms, Babst Calland is a legal and regulatory resource for renewables clients nationwide. Our renewables clients benefit from the firm’s decades of experience throughout the energy space. Our attorneys take a proactive approach, helping clients achieve their business and sustainability objectives while minimizing risk. Our experience allows us to guide your business to maximize opportunities and overcome challenges of the complex and ever-changing patchwork of federal, state, and local incentives and restrictions related to renewables.
Our energy clients are the beneficiaries of Babst Calland’s strong, seasoned, and diverse legal team with the necessary experience to provide well-planned strategy to pre-empt or react to whatever challenges lie ahead, whether the issues revolve around coal, mining, oil or natural gas production, midstream or pipeline operations, renewable project siting, petrochemical processing or petroleum refining, or best business practices applying environmental and energy law and regulations.
U.S. Supreme Court Issues Three Decisions Charting New Path for Federal Administrative Law
Firm Alert
Chevron is overruled; right to jury trial in many agency enforcement actions is guaranteed; and claim accrual date for Administrative Procedure Act claims are fixed. …
Shapiro Administration Revises PPC Plan Policy to Require Operators to Disclose Drilling Chemicals
The Foundation Mineral and Energy Law Newsletter
Pennsylvania – Oil & Gas
PACER and PRESS Are Introduced in the Pennsylvania General Assembly
The Foundation Mineral and Energy Law Newsletter
Pennsylvania – Mining
March 2024 GPAC on LDAR and Class Location with Keith Coyle
PodcastIn this episode of the Pipeliners Podcast, Keith Coyle discusses the recent GPAC meeting focusing on regulatory rulemaking for the LDAR (Leak Detection and Repair) rule. …
Federal Court Dismisses Challenge to WV Pooling Statute
Energy Alert
(by Robert Stonestreet and Austin Rogers)
A federal court has dismissed a challenge to the validity of a West Virginia law authorizing pooling and unitization of oil and gas formations associated with Marcellus and Utica shale wells. …
Governor Shapiro Awards $101.1 Million in Grants for Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Projects
The Foundation Mineral and Energy Law Newsletter
Pennsylvania – Oil & Gas
Legislative & Regulatory Update
The Wildcatter
(By Nikolas Tysiak)
Happy New Year! After a hiatus, we are back with new laws and cases for your information. …
Upcoming GPAC on LDAR with Keith Coyle
PodcastIn this week’s episode of the Pipeliners Podcast, Russel Treat is joined by attorney Keith Coyle, to discuss the upcoming Gas Pipeline Advisory Council Meeting (GPAC) on Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR). …
Court to rule on WV pooling statute challenge
GO-WV
(by Robert Stonestreet and Austin Rogers)
A federal appeals court has instructed a lower court to resolve a pending suit challenging the constitutionality of West Virginia’s oil and gas pooling and unitization law. …
