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The United States Supreme Court has granted a petition for certiorari from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on the Environmental Protection Agency's Waters of the United States Rule.

Last week, Governor Asa Hutchinson announced his determination that a proposed regulation from the Arkansas Plant Board entitled Pesticide Use and Restriction would not unnecessarily burden business.

The federal Natural Resources Conservation Service is currently offering landowners in twenty counties the opportunity to earn $36 per acre to improve bobwhite quail habitat.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers recently published its 2017 final rule for nationwide permits under the Clean Water Act.

Adverse possession is a legal doctrine that allows a person to acquire legal title to real estate by taking possession of the property for a prescribed amount of time. This doctrine becomes more complex in the oil and gas industry because the surface and mineral estate can be severed, and titled vested in different owners. Then the mineral estate is divided into working interest, royalty interest, overriding royalty interest, and non-participating royalty interest and others. Some of these interests are subject to adverse possession while others are not. Our oil and gas practice group prepared this article to assist you in navigating the common oil and gas interests in Arkansas.