Daniel P. Craig

Daniel advises oil and gas companies, solar energy developers, and landowners on mineral title, real estate, and regulatory matters affecting energy development. He counsels landowners and developers on energy-related real estate transactions, drafts oil and gas drilling title opinions, and conducts rapid response due diligence for large land acquisitions by oil and gas companies operating in the Marcellus and Utica shale plays. He also represents energy industry clients in contract, real estate, regulatory, and zoning cases in municipal, state, and federal courts.

Daniel advises solar energy clients on title insurance, curing title defects, restrictive covenants, zoning, and net metering. He guides developers through the interconnection requirements and application process of PJM Interconnection, Inc., a federally regulated regional transmission organization, and counsels clients on utility tariffs and wholesale power markets. He also drafts and negotiates commercial contracts, including lease options, leases, easements, surface use agreements, and power purchase agreements, and performs due diligence for acquisitions of solar project portfolios. He represents landowners in lease and sale negotiations for solar and battery energy storage projects.

Court Admissions

Representative Experience

Advised major financial institution serving as corporate trustee of a trust developing distributed solar projects on regulatory and C-PACE financing issues
Advised utility-scale solar developer on whether addition of battery storage to existing solar project would trigger Ohio Power Siting Board review
Assisted utility-scale solar developer building project on former U.S. Army munitions testing facility in identifying locations on property subject to restrictive covenants concerning buried unexploded ordnance, archeological preservation sites, and Indiana bat (protected species) roosting grounds
Developed process for identifying agricultural conservation easements (which exclude solar energy development) on target project acreage in advance of title abstracting for industry-leading utility-scale solar energy developer

Represented energy industry clients in permitting disputes before regulatory bodies and federal courts
Advised a coal mine owner regarding a joint venture with a solar energy developer
Won appeal of a $15 million judgment in a case involving oil and gas lease dispute
Successfully defended oil and gas zoning permit in challenges brought by environmental groups and landowners before local zoning hearing boards and state trial and appellate courts

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Licensed In

Ohio
Pennsylvania

Education

J.D. Duquesne University Kline School of Law

B.A. The Ohio State University

Achievements

Selected to Super Lawyers Rising Stars^® list, Pennsylvania (2021-2023)

Memberships

Board of Trustees, Energy & Mineral Law Foundation (2021-Present)
Counsel, Board of Directors, Bloomfield Development Corporation (2019-Present)
Facilitator, Pittsburgh Legal Diversity & Inclusion Coalition (2018-Present)
Volunteer Attorney, Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund Name Change Project (2021-Present)

Speaking Engagements

“Policy, Litigation, and Power Prices: Pennsylvania’s RGGI Battle and PJM Capacity Auction FERC Settlement,” EMLF Special Institute: Bridging Traditional and Renewable Energy Practice, Energy and Mineral Law Foundation (September 2025)
“Solar Energy Legislative and Regulatory Update,” Energy & Mineral Law Foundation, Fall Symposium (October 2022)
“FERC Order No. 841: Removing barriers to electric storage technology in wholesale power markets,” Virtual Poster Presentation, North American Smart Energy Week (2020)
“2012 United States Oil and Gas Law Update,” Institute for Energy Law 64th Annual Oil and Gas Law Conference (February 2013)

Publications

Co-Author, “State Solar Regulation in Appalachia,” 42 Energy & Min. Law Inst. 186 (2022)
“Challenges Ahead For U.S. Generator Interconnection Process,” Law360 Expert Analysis (April 2022)
Co-Author, “Legal Ethics and American Political Scandal: Pennsylvania’s Recent Supreme Court Scandal Explored Through the Lens of the Historical Development of American Legal Ethics,” 37 Energy & Min. Law Inst. 1 (2017)
Co-Author, “Recent Decisions in Oil and Gas Jurisprudence,” 36 Energy & Min. L. Inst. 733 (2015)
Co-Author, “Jurisdictional Considerations for the Oil Gras Practitioner,” 34 Energy & Min. L. Inst. 621 (2013)
Co-Author, “Compulsory Pooling and Unitization in the Marcellus Shale: Pennsylvania’s Challenges and Opportunities,” 83 Pa.B.A.Q. 47 (April 2012)