Babst Calland’s Energy and Natural Resources Practice Group represents energy companies across the country on a variety of matters. Energy clients receive support from our highly focused, multidisciplinary team of energy attorneys that provides a wide range of legal services to clients engaged in the coal, mining, oil and gas, and renewable energy industries.
Babst Calland’s energy attorneys work collaboratively with in-house counsel, executives, and outside advisors to provide timely and cost-effective legal strategy and representation. Our energy clients come to us for our decades of experience on environmental, land use, pipeline safety, construction, litigation, energy title, transactions, real estate, and employment and labor matters.
Babst Calland represents energy companies across the country. We understand each geographic footprint and tailor legal strategies accordingly, with a deep knowledge of state regulation and local jurisdictions. Our attorneys are key advisors on a myriad of issues related to transactions, due diligence, state and federal regulatory matters, local government challenges, lease disputes, royalty interest determinations, and title examination.
As one of the nation’s most respected energy law firms, Babst Calland is a legal and regulatory resource for renewables clients nationwide. Our renewables clients benefit from the firm’s decades of experience throughout the energy space. Our attorneys take a proactive approach, helping clients achieve their business and sustainability objectives while minimizing risk. Our experience allows us to guide your business to maximize opportunities and overcome challenges of the complex and ever-changing patchwork of federal, state, and local incentives and restrictions related to renewables.
Our energy clients are the beneficiaries of Babst Calland’s strong, seasoned, and diverse legal team with the necessary experience to provide well-planned strategy to pre-empt or react to whatever challenges lie ahead, whether the issues revolve around coal, mining, oil or natural gas production, midstream or pipeline operations, renewable project siting, petrochemical processing or petroleum refining, or best business practices applying environmental and energy law and regulations.
Trump Administration Day One Executive Orders: A Transformation of American Energy and Environmental Policies
Firm Alert
(by Ben Clapp, Gary Steinbauer, Mackenzie Moyer, Christina Puhnaty and Alexandra Graf)
On January 20, 2025, the Trump administration issued a suite of Executive Orders and memoranda signaling a dramatic shift in American energy and environmental policy. …
Trump Administration Day One Executive Orders: Energy Policy
Firm Alert
(by Ben Clapp, Alexandra Graf and Mackenzie Moyer)
The Trump administration issued several Executive Orders aimed at significantly altering American energy policy, which are summarized below. …
Trump Administration Day One Executive Orders: Regulatory Freeze
Firm Alert
(by Ben Clapp, Gary Steinbauer and Christina Puhnaty)
Among the flurry of executive orders that President Trump issued in the hours following his inauguration on January 20th was a memorandum titled Regulatory Freeze Pending Review (2025 Trump Regulatory Freeze Memorandum), which directs agencies to:
Trump Administration Day One Executive Orders: Key Environmental Regulatory, Permitting, and Enforcement Implications
Firm Alert
(by Ben Clapp and Gary Steinbauer)
President Trump’s first-day executive actions prioritize the development of a wide-range of domestic energy resources and take direct aim at the climate initiatives and environmental justice priorities of the Biden administration. …
Key Legal Developments on Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act
PIOGA eWeekly
(by Chris Farmakis, Susanna Bagdasarova, Kate Cooper, and Dane Fennell)
In recent weeks, significant developments have unfolded regarding the implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), which remain subject to a nationwide injunction. …
Key Legal Developments on Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act
Firm Alert
(by Chris Farmakis, Susanna Bagdasarova, Kate Cooper, and Dane Fennell)
In recent weeks, significant developments have unfolded regarding the implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), which remain subject to a nationwide injunction. …
West Virginia Poised to Receive Primacy Over Permitting for Carbon Dioxide Underground Injection Wells
GO-WV
(by Kip Power)
The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed to approve the application of the State of West Virginia (through its Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP)) to obtain primary authority (a.k.a., “primacy”) over the issuance of permits for Class VI underground injection wells located within its borders. …
Uncertainty Over CTA Reporting Requirements as DOJ Appeals Nationwide Injunction
Pittsburgh Technology Council
(by Chris Farmakis, Susanna Bagdasarova, Kate Cooper, and Dane Fennell)
As discussed in our previous Alert, the U.S. …
Uncertainty Over CTA Reporting Requirements as DOJ Appeals Nationwide Injunction
Firm Alert
(by Chris Farmakis, Susanna Bagdasarova, Kate Cooper, and Dane Fennell)
Court Blocks Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act Nationwide
PIOGA Press
(by Chris Farmakis, Susanna Bagdasarova, Kate Cooper, and Dane Fennell)
On December 3, 2024, the U.S. …
