Phil Wood, special counsel on the environmental litigation team in the New Orleans office, authored the article "Enviro Ruling And A New Law Signal Shift In La. Legacy Cases," published by Law360 on May 4, 2026. In the article, Phil examines how a recent court ruling, WMH Farms LLC v. Apache Corp., and new legislation, S.B. 244, may change how Louisiana handles legacy environmental cases tied to historic oil and gas operations. He explains how courts are placing tighter limits on what it means to prove contamination, while new state laws shift more authority to regulators and limit the scope of damages.