1/28/2026 2:27:00 PM Climate Analysis in Louisiana’s Coastal Permitting Regime: The Second Commonwealth LNG Petition By Kelly Becker Jamie Rhymes Andrew Hughes In October 2025, a district court in Cameron Parish granted a challenge brought by environmental justice groups who sought to vacate a...
1/14/2026 11:18:00 AM Three CCS Bills Prefiled for 2026 Louisiana Regular Session By Neil Abramson Jeff Lieberman Speaker Pro Tempore Mike Johnson filed three CCS bills on January 12, which was the first day to prefile legislation for the Louisiana...
12/3/2025 4:13:55 PM SCOTUS Presented with Best Opportunity to Weigh In on Climate Change Litigation By Kelly Becker Jamie Rhymes James Lapeze The United States Supreme Court is currently presented with what many believe is the best opportunity for the Court to provide...
12/1/2025 8:44:11 PM DOI Issues Draft Proposed 2026-2031 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program: Sales Scheduled for Alaska, Gulf of America, and Pacific Regions By Jana Grauberger Bradford Laperouse Kathleen Doody On November 24, 2025, the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) published its Notice of Availability of the 1st Analysis and Proposal of...
11/10/2025 8:28:08 PM When “Net Zero” Meets the Courtroom: Energy Companies and the Rise of Greenwashing Litigation By Andrew Hughes Kelly Becker James Lapeze Jamie Rhymes +1 more... Show less A Landmark Ruling in Paris In late October 2025, a Paris civil court handed down a decision that could reshape how global energy...
11/10/2025 6:58:52 PM Big Beautiful Gulf 1 Lease Sale to Offer 80 Million Acres for Leasing at 12.5% Royalty Rate By Jana Grauberger Kathleen Doody BOEM’s Final Notice of Sale (FNOS) for Big Beautiful Gulf 1 (BBG1), to be published in the Federal Register on November 10, 2025, will...
11/3/2025 9:06:09 PM ExxonMobil Sues California Over Climate Disclosure Laws By Kelly Becker Jamie Rhymes James Lapeze In late October 2025, Exxon Mobil Corporation filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of...
10/21/2025 1:30:00 PM Industries Push Trump Administration for Preemption of State PFAS Laws By Michael Mims With anxiety looming over regulation of so-called “forever chemicals,” some industry players have proposed a solution: federal...
10/14/2025 11:01:33 PM Government Shutdown and BOEM, BSEE and ONRR Contingency Plans By Jana Grauberger Kathleen Doody Due to the government shutdown, which began on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the...
10/13/2025 6:31:03 PM Podcast: The Oil and Gas Regulator with an Unlikely Name: The Texas Railroad Commission By Liskow In this episode of “Energy Law This Week,” hosts Matt Jones and April L. Rolen-Ogden discuss the Texas Railroad Commission with...
9/5/2025 10:20:09 PM Podcast: Clearing the Air: Carbon Capture in the New Era By Liskow In this episode of “Energy Law This Week,” hosts Matt Jones and April L. Rolen-Ogden are joined by LSU Law Professor, Keith Hall, to...
9/2/2025 1:03:28 PM Healthy Gulf’s Challenge to the 2024–2029 OCS Leasing Program Fails By Jana Grauberger Margaret Chavez On August 29, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (the “Court” or the “Healthy Gulf Court”) issued its decision...