By: Guy E. Wall I. INTRODUCTION Dramatic changes in the environmental laws applied to oil and gas operations have occurred in the last ten years. On a national and local level, as the population’s concern about pollution, particularly industrial pollution, has increased, the legislative branches of government have passed laws imposing strict liability for waste…

By: Guy E. Wall I. INSPECTIONS A. OBJECTIVES. The EPA conducts inspections to determine compliance status with applicable laws, regulations, permits, and consent decrees, identify the need for remedial measures and enforcement actions, correct the causes of violations, evaluate a facility’s production and control of pollution, self-monitoring capability, recordkeeping practices, waste minimization and pollution prevention…

By: Guy E. Wall and Donna Phillips Currault* I. INTRODUCTION Landowners have invoked CERCLA’s third party defense to avoid the often-crippling costs of remediating contaminated property. The judicial interpretations of this defense have thus far failed to provide innocent landowners with the liability protection Congress intended. This Article discusses the landowner defenses and proposes certain…

By Guy E. Wall Copyright © 1992 Louisiana Law Review. Louisiana Law Review SEPTEMBER, 1992 53 La. L. Rev. 79 LENGTH: 21654 words SUMMARY: … In Louisiana, these operations, which may be referred to broadly as joint oil and gas operations, arise in three ways: (a) through co-ownership; (b) through orders of the Commissioner of…

I. SOME CONSERVATION PRINCIPLES A. Commissioner’s Powers The Commissioner of Conservation has expansive authority to promulgate necessary rules, regulations, and orders to prevent waste and protect correlative rights. See Tex/Con Oil and Gas Co. v. Batchelor, 634 So.2d 902, 909 (La. App. 1st Cir. 1993), writ denied, 635 So.2d 1102 (La. 1994); McDougal, Louisiana Oil…