An OCC no-further-action letter and a final order closing a spill site do not bind a district court hearing a private nuisance claim. But the court may weigh them as evidence and may rely on them in holding that a plaintiff has not shown (by clear and convincing evidence) the likelihood of success needed to justify a mandatory cleanup injunction.
Although EPA has proposed eliminating most GHGRP source categories and suspending reporting obligations for much of the oil and gas sector, those proposals have not been finalized. Accordingly, facilities currently subject to GHGRP reporting should continue to treat existing reporting obligations as fully enforceable unless and until EPA takes final regulatory action.
Erin’s practice will focus on representing clients in a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, drawing on a career spanning litigation, in-house transactional work, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) leadership.
Despite two years of political and regulatory turbulence, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) New Source Performance Standards (“NSPS”) Subparts OOOOb/c remain in effect and are the dominant framework for regulating methane and volatile organic compound (“VOC”) emissions in parts of the oil and gas sector.
GableGotwals is pleased to announce that 64 lawyers have been recognized in the 2027 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Best Lawyers® in America has named seven GableGotwals attorneys to the 2027 “Lawyer of the Year” list. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year,” making this accolade particularly significant. These lawyers are selected based on particularly impressive voting averages received during the peer-review assessments.
The National Environmental Policy Act is continuing to undergo a period of structural recalibration. A combination of judicial decisions, executive policy direction and proposed legislation reflects a sustained effort to shorten permitting timelines for energy and infrastructure projects while preserving NEPA's core function as a procedural environmental review statute.
GableGotwals is pleased to announce that Travis Lee has joined the Firm’s Tulsa office as an Associate.
