If your firm does any work whatsoever for clients in fossil fuels–energy, environmental or the business side of either–see in Environmental Protection this piece by Keith B. Hall at New Orleans’ Stone Pigman: “Hydraulic Fracturing–Is it all it’s cracked up to be?“. It’s a fine primer on fracing and the extraction of natural gas from U.S. shale formations, if you don’t know much about those two issues. Louisiana folks know a lot about both. Politically, moreover, it’s a hot button issue right now, especially in the American Northeast.
