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  • June 16, 2026

    Chevron's Climate Suit Comparison Meets Skeptical Judge

    A Washington state judge pushed back Tuesday after Chevron and other oil giants urged dismissal of a family's lawsuit over a 2021 heatwave death, saying this case differs from a host of failed climate torts because it focuses on a single fatality from a "very specific weather event."

  • June 16, 2026

    DOJ Wants NAACP's Air Permit Suit Against XAI Tossed

    The Trump administration has urged a Mississippi federal court to let it step in as a plaintiff and dismiss the NAACP's lawsuit that seeks to bar X.AI Corp.'s operation of a data center-powering gas plant in Southaven, saying the NAACP can't pursue the lawsuit over the government's objection.

  • June 16, 2026

    'Cold Comfort': Judge Pans Fed Defense Of Energy Grant Cuts

    The Trump administration faced tough questions from a California federal judge during a hearing Tuesday on the government's request to transfer or toss states' allegations it unlawfully terminated energy and infrastructure programs, with the judge calling defense counsel's arguments "cold comfort" to grant recipients who've lost billions in funding.

  • June 16, 2026

    Montanans Say Data Center Electricity Rates Need Their Input

    Environmental advocacy groups seek to intervene in NorthWestern Energy's application to establish new rates for future data centers, telling the Montana Public Service Commission that their input is needed to protect residential customers from unpredictably higher costs.

  • June 16, 2026

    Justices Asked To Revive $77M In Trade Secret Damages

    Plastics manufacturer Trinseo Europe GmbH has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to restore a verdict of more than $77 million that it won stemming from trade secret misappropriation allegations against a former Dow Chemical Co. employee and engineering firm KBR, saying the Fifth Circuit went against precedent when it endorsed an approach to damages that "is the antithesis of flexible."

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