The 2025 Louisiana Legislative Session has continued to stay busy on the carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) front, with a mix of outcomes for proposed bills.
Continue Reading Pipelines, Property, and Policy: CCS Legislation Continues in 2025 Louisiana Session

There are seven more CCS bills, and potentially more to come, scheduled for hearing this week in the House Ways & Means Committee on Monday morning and in the House Committee on Natural Resources & Environment on Wednesday morning. 
Continue Reading Seven More Bills on CCS Currently Set for Hearing in Two House Committees This Week

On Tuesday, April 29, the Louisiana House Committee on Natural Resources & Environment held a hearing involving 10 carbon capture and storage (CCS) bills, beginning at 9 a.m. with only a midday recess to attend the floor session, where they resumed until 10 p.m. when the hearing finally concluded.
Continue Reading Louisiana House Committee on Natural Resources & Environment Hears Key CCS Bills

On this week’s episode of “Energy Law This Week,” hosts Matt Jones and April Rolen-Ogden are joined by Liskow attorney Bill Pugh to discuss key legal developments affecting property rights and risk allocation in the oil and gas industry.
Continue Reading Podcast: Covering Your Assets: Shifting Risk Through Indemnity

The 2025 Louisiana Legislative session is officially underway, with the Louisiana House committee set to hear multiple bills concerning Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) this Tuesday, April 29th.
Continue Reading Ten CCS Bills Set For Committee Hearing Next Week in Louisiana Legislative Session

On April 8, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO), “Protecting American Energy From State Overreach,” aimed at “unleashing American energy” by directing the U.S. Attorney General (AG) to identify state laws and policies that burden the development of domestic energy resources and “are or may be unconstitutional, preempted by Federal law

In Corbello v. Iowa Prod. Co., 850 So. 2d 686 (La. 2003), the Louisiana Supreme Court recognized a “loophole” in the law where a landowner was allowed to recover millions in remediation damages for oilfield contamination without any requirement that the money be used for actual restoration.
Continue Reading Legislation Takes Aim at “Legacy Lawsuits”