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.
Babst Calland Names Tiffany M. Arbaugh, Alexandra G. Farone and Stefanie Pitcavage Mekilo Shareholders
Babst Calland recently named Tiffany M. Arbaugh, Alexandra G. Farone and Stefanie Pitcavage Mekilo shareholders.
Tiffany Arbaugh practices in the Firm’s Charleston, W.Va. office and is a member of the Energy and Natural Resources and Litigation groups. …
New EPA Webpage Compiles Clean Air Act Resources for Data Center & AI Projects
Firm Alert
(by Gary Steinbauer, Gina Buchman and Christina Puhnaty)
In response to President Trump’s Executive Order 14179, “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence (AI),” EPA announced this week a new EPA webpage dedicated to compiling agency resources related to the Clean Air Act requirements potentially applicable to the development of data centers and AI facilities across the United States. …
Practical and Legal Hurdles to Lithium: The Next Extraction Revolution?
The Drill Bit Magazine
(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?
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. …
PJM Interconnection Launches Fast Track Proposal for New Electricity Generation to Curb Data Center Supply Shortfall
FNREL Mineral and Energy Law Newsletter
Pennsylvania – Oil & Gas
(by Joe Reinhart, Sean McGovern, Matt Wood and Ethan Johnson)
In response to supply shortfalls due to data center demand, the largest regional transmissional operation in the United States, PJM Interconnection (PJM), has submitted its Expedited Interconnection Track (EIT) proposal to allow new generators to bypass the traditional interconnection queue. …
Pennsylvania PUC Issues Final Order to Expedite Replacement of Aging Plastic in Natural Gas Systems
FNREL Mineral and Energy Law Newsletter
Pennsylvania – Oil & Gas
(by Joe Reinhart, Sean McGovern, Matt Wood and Ethan Johnson)
On September 11, 2025, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC), stressing the need to address aging infrastructure, approved a final order that will speed up the process of identifying and replacing older, at-risk plastic pipe materials in natural gas systems. …
EQB Delays Considering Three Key Rulemaking Petitions at October Meeting
FNREL Mineral and Energy Law Newsletter
Pennsylvania – Oil & Gas
(by Joe Reinhart, Sean McGovern, Matt Wood and Ethan Johnson)
On September 9, 2025, the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB) elected to defer discussion on three pending rulemaking petitions pertaining to the oil and gas industry until its next meeting. …
FERC Approves Plan to Allow PJM to Recover Payments to Power Plant from Consumers
FNREL Mineral and Energy Law Newsletter
Pennsylvania – Mining
(by Joe Reinhart, Sean McGovern, Gina Buchman, and Christina Puhnaty)
On August 15, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved a cost-allocation plan by which PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. …
PADEP Announces Permit Backlog Reduction of 98% and Broadens Eligibility of SPEED Program for Permit Review
FNREL Mineral and Energy Law Newsletter
Pennsylvania – Mining
(by Joe Reinhart, Sean McGovern, Gina Buchman, and Christina Puhnaty)
On July 14, 2025, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) announced that it had reduced its permit backlog by 98% since November 2023, from over 2,400 permit applications to fewer than 50. …
Reissuance of NPDES General Permit for Stormwater Associated with Mining Activities
FNREL Mineral and Energy Law Newsletter
Pennsylvania – Mining
(by Joe Reinhart, Sean McGovern, Gina Buchman, and Christina Puhnaty)
On August 9, 2025, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) announced its intent to modify and reissue the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for Stormwater Associated with Mining Activities (BMP GP-104). …
