ELR Citation: ELR 20307
No(s). 07-5299 (D.C. Cir. Dec 23, 2008)

The D.C. Circuit upheld a final order issued by the Department of the Interior (DOI) requiring an energy company to retroactively recalculate royalties owed to the U.S. government under its lease to extract coalbed methane from federal land in Wyoming. In its disputed order, DOI held that the market...