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, pipeline and hazardous materials safety, construction, litigation, energy title, transactions, real estate, land use and zoning, emerging technologies, 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.
Practical and Legal Hurdles to Lithium: The Next Extraction Revolution?
GO-WV
(by Steve Silverman and Katerina Vassil)
There has been much talk within the oil and gas industry about the potential for lithium extraction from produced water, a waste byproduct produced during hydraulic fracturing and drilling. …
Practical and Legal Hurdles to Lithium: The Next Extraction Revolution?
PIOGA Press
(by Steve Silverman and Katerina Vassil)
There has been much talk within the oil and gas industry about the potential for lithium extraction from produced water, a waste byproduct produced during hydraulic fracturing and drilling. …
Babst Calland Ranked in 2026 Best Law Firms®
Babst Calland has been recognized in the 2026 edition of Best Law Firms®, ranked by Best Lawyers®, nationally in 8 practice areas and regionally in 41 practice areas:
- National Tier 2
- Energy Law
- Environmental Law
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Litigation –
Expedited Reviews of Permit Applications Under SPEED Program
The Foundation Water Law Newsletter
(by Lisa Bruderly, Mackenzie Moyer and Ethan Johnson)
On August 21, 2025, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced that companies may now request expedited permit application reviews under the Streamlining Permits for Economic Expansion and Development (SPEED) program. …
DEP Seeking Comments on Proposed Conditional State Water Quality Certification Under Draft PASPGP-7
The Foundation Water Law Newsletter
(by Lisa Bruderly, Mackenzie Moyer and Ethan Johnson)
On September 6, 2025, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) published the Proposed Conditional State Water Quality Certification for the PASPGP-7 (SWQC), 55 Pa. …
PHMSA Rulemaking Update with Jim Curry — Pipeliners Podcast
PodcastIn this episode of the Pipeliners Podcast, Jim Curry returns for an in-depth discussion on current and upcoming PHMSA rulemakings.
The conversation covers the agency’s evolving focus on risk-based, technology-driven regulation — including the growing role of AI and advanced analytical tools — and what these changes mean for operators. …
Former U.S. Department of Justice Environmental Enforcement Attorney Nicholas McDaniel Joins Law Firm Babst Calland’s Washington, D.C. Office
Babst Calland announced that Nicholas McDaniel has joined the firm as a shareholder in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. With more than a decade of combined government and private practice experience, most recently as a senior enforcement attorney with the U.S. …
Key Environmental and Energy Policies in the Second Trump Administration
Developing Pittsburgh
(by Ben Clapp and Gary Steinbauer)
Announced through a record-breaking number of executive orders, memoranda and directives, new White House energy and environmental policy initiatives are resulting in a rapidly changing environmental regulatory climate affecting the business community. …
Grants Available Through Pennsylvania Grid Resilience Program Under Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021
The Foundation Mineral and Energy Law Newsletter
Pennsylvania – Oil & Gas
(by Joe Reinhart, Sean McGovern, Matt Wood and Gina Buchman)
On May 31, 2025, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) announced the availability of $8 million in grants offered through the Pennsylvania Grid Resilience Grants Program (Program), which is funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. …
Bucks County Appeals Dismissal of Climate Change Lawsuit
The Foundation Mineral and Energy Law Newsletter
Pennsylvania – Oil & Gas
(by Joe Reinhart, Sean McGovern, Matt Wood and Gina Buchman)
On June 16, 2025, Bucks County, Pennsylvania filed a notice of appeal to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania challenging the court of common pleas’ dismissal of Bucks County’s climate change lawsuit against 14 energy companies and the industry’s largest trade association, the American Petroleum Institute (API). …
