In a video interview following the 2012 elections, Bracewell’s Salo Zelermyer (Policy Resolution Group) and Lowell Rothschild (Environmental Strategies Group) analyze the prospects for shale gas development in the United States. Their discussion focused on the full range of concerns that shale developers could face in the coming year, including: the role of job creation; pending regulations from federal agencies; EPA’s hydraulic fracturing study; federal lands issues; prospects and challenges for LNG exports; Congressional oversight; the role that public relations plays in this hot-button issue; and the wide range of environmental enforcement initiatives that developers may face.