Blank Rome LLP

PUBLICATIONS

• Increased Natural Gas Production Holds Great Benefits for Consumers, Environment

  [Article]
  Times of Trenton
  May 17, 2013
  Michael L. Krancer
  

• SBE Economic Study Says That Small And Medium Sized Businesses Would Get a Big Boost By LNG Exports

  [Alert]
  Shale Gas & Oil Development
  May 2013 (No. 2)
  Michael L. Krancer, Heather L. Demirjian, Mary Ann Mullaney and Margaret Anne Hill
  

• Pennsylvania Supreme Court Clarifies Shale Gas Leasehold Rights

  [Alert]
  Shale Gas & Oil Development
  May 2013 (No. 1)
  Michael L. Krancer, Heather L. Demirjian, Mary Ann Mullaney and Margaret Anne Hill
  

• The Emerging Litigation Strategy of Environmental Organizations Seeking to Curtail Shale Oil and Gas Development

  [Article]
  Oil & Gas Monitor
  November 28, 2012
  Margaret Anne Hill and Mary Ann Mullaney
  

• The Emerging Litigation Strategy of Environmental Organizations Seeking to Curtail Shale Oil and Gas Development

  [Alert]
  Shale Oil & Gas Development
  November 2012 (No. 5)
  Margaret Anne Hill and Mary Ann Mullaney
  

• Commonwealth Court Nullifies Two Key Provisions of Act 13

  [Alert]
  Shale Oil & Gas Development
  August 2012 (No. 4)
  Christopher A. Lewis
  

• Shale Development and Fracking Litigation Trends

  [Article]
  The Legal Intelligencer
  July 31, 2012
  Heather L. Demirjian, Margaret Anne Hill and Mary Ann Mullaney
  

• A Shift to Sand: NIOSH’s Release of Preliminary Findings from Its Field Study Turns a Spotlight on the Crystalline Silica Used in Hydraulic Fracturing

  [Alert]
  Shale Oil & Gas Development
  June 2012 (No. 3)
  Margaret Anne Hill and Mary Ann Mullaney
  

• Defending Marcellus Shale Groundwater Contamination Claims: The Case Against Class Actions and Other Theories of Liability

  [Article]
  Defense Counsel Journal (Vol. 79, No. 2)
  April 2012
  Raymond G. Mullady, Jr., Sandra J. Doyle, Charles A. Fitzpatrick IV and Angela M. Guarino
  

• Pennsylvania’s Impact Fee Legislation

  [Alert]
  Shale Oil & Gas Industry Update
  February 2012 (No. 2)
  Margaret Anne Hill and Rachel S. Wolfe Mandel
  

• PA PUC Issues Tentative Order To Implement New Pipeline Act

  [Alert]
  Shale Oil & Gas Development Alert
  January 2012 (No. 1)
  Christopher A. Lewis
  

• Private Equity Funds: Good Source of Capital for Independent Exploration and Production Companies

  [Article]
  Oil & Gas Monitor
  December 2, 2011
  Mark S. Greenfield
  

• Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission Report

  [Alert]
  Marcellus Shale Alert
  July 2011 (No. 6)
  Margaret Anne Hill
  

• Debating Shale Development in NY

  [Article]
  Law360
  July 27, 2011
  Margaret Anne Hill
  

• Shale Development In New York State: Will It Really Happen

  [Alert]
  Marcellus Shale Alert
  July 2011 (No. 5)
  Margaret Anne Hill
  

• ExxonMobil v. New York City: Jury Awards Windfall in Case Involving Federally-Permitted Gas Additive

  [Article]
  Washington Legal Foundation
  July 8, 2011
  Jeffrey S. Moller
  

• Environmental and Legal Issues Surrounding Development of the Marcellus Shale

  [Article]
  Aspatore Special Report: Navigating Legal Issues around the Marcellus Shale (Thomson Reuters/Aspatore)
  2011
  Raymond G. Mullady, Jr., Joseph F. Speelman and Margaret Anne Hill
  

• Congressional Democrats’ Report on Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals Provides No Evidence of Chemicals’ Potential Harm to Human Health or the Environment

  [Alert]
  Marcellus Shale Alert
  April 2011 (No. 4)
  Raymond G. Mullady, Jr.
  

• Marcellus Shale Wastewater: Comments on the New York Times' Series

  [Alert]
  Marcellus Shale Alert
  March 2011 (No. 3)
  James T. Smith, Joseph F. Speelman, Margaret Anne Hill, Raymond G. Mullady, Jr., Mary Ann Mullaney and Heather L. Demirjian
  

• EPA’s “Fracking” Study: Potential Impacts On Marcellus Shale Development

  [Alert]
  Marcellus Shale Alert
  February 2011 (No. 2)
  Margaret Anne Hill, Mary Ann Mullaney, Joseph F. Speelman and Heather L. Demirjian
  

• Pa. PUC Administrative Law Judge Nixes Public Utility Status for Midstream Operators

  [Alert]
  Marcellus Shale Alert
  December 2010 (No. 1)
  Kevin J. Bruno, Ernest W. Chung, Nicholas A. Giannasca, Mark S. Greenfield, Margaret Anne Hill, Christopher A. Lewis, et al.
  

• Developments in the Marcellus Shale Debate

  [Alert]
  Environmental Law Update
  October 2010 (No. 3)
  Margaret Anne Hill and Heather L. Demirjian