A New Jersey appellate court held that a town that acquired property containing a former landfill in an eminent domain action cannot require part of the condemnation award to be set aside for remediation purposes. The state's highest court has previously held that contaminated property acquired in a...

A Pennsylvania appellate court partially struck down Act 13, which pertains to oil and gas operations in the Marcellus Shale, as unconstitutional. The Act repealed Pennsylvania’s Oil and Gas Act and replaced it with a codified statutory framework regulating oil and gas operations in the Commonweal...

The D.C. Circuit dismissed a petition challenging an EPA rule issued under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) concerning ethanol fuel. The EISA directed EPA to promulgate regulations ensuring that transportation fuel sold in the United States contains certain minimum levels of r...