On July 8th, the Illinois Supreme Court recognized in Hampton, et al., v. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, that Illinois courts can use the decisional factors analysis laid out by the United States Supreme Court in Arkansas Game and Fish Commission v. United States to determine if temporary flooding caused by a government authority is a “taking” that entitles the injured parties to just compensation.
On Monday, the EPA published a final rule ensuring wastewater from hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling cannot be sent to public wastewater treatment facilities.
On Tuesday, a Wyoming federal district court set aside a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rule regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal and tribal lands.
UPDATE: President Obama officially signed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act into law on Wednesday, June 22, 2016.
On Tuesday, the German government approved a hydraulic fracturing ban that will be in place for an indefinite amount of time.
