Legal Opinion

Powder River Basin Resource Council v. Wyoming Oil & Gas Conservation Commission

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided March 12, 2014No. S-13-0120PublishedCited by 33 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DAVIS, Justice.

[11] Appellants Powder River Basin Resource Council, Wyoming Outdoor Council, Earthworks, and Center for Effective Government appeal from a district court order affirming the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (Commission) Supervisor's denial of a public records request. Recently-adopted regulations require companies engaged in hydraulic fracturing to disclose the chemical compounds used to the Commission. Appellants sought disclosure of the chemicals in several companies' hydraulic fracturing products from the Commission, but the Supervisor, custodian of the records,…

2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicron Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
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  3. McGuire v. McGuireWyoming Supreme Court · 1980
  4. Billis v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1990
  5. Greg Herrick v. Jane Garvey, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, the Fairchild Corporation, Amicus CuriaeCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2002

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