December 06, 2023
Exxon Mobil Corp. and the Conservation Law Foundation have reached a settlement in a 7-year-old lawsuit over potential pollution at the company's now-decommissioned storage terminal just north of Boston, the environmental advocacy group announced this week.
March 23, 2020
A Massachusetts federal judge on Saturday put on hold a suit by an environmental group claiming Exxon Mobil ignored climate change risks at its petroleum storage facility in the state, deciding that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should be given time to act on a related permit.
May 14, 2019
A lawyer with the Environmental Protection Agency was threatened with criminal contempt by a federal judge Tuesday before agreeing to provide information in a suit between an environmental group and Exxon Mobil Corp. over a Boston-area petroleum storage terminal.
April 08, 2019
ExxonMobil asked a Boston federal judge Friday to freeze a lawsuit by environmental activists over the potential risks associated with its petroleum storage facility in Massachusetts, saying the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should be allowed to consider the company's permit renewal application before the suit moves forward.
March 13, 2019
A Boston federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Conservation Law Foundation has plausibly argued that ExxonMobil failed to consider the effects of climate change at a petroleum storage facility in Massachusetts, allowing the bulk of the group's amended complaint to survive Exxon's motion to dismiss.
December 19, 2018
Suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a permit for a Boston-area petroleum storage terminal — an avenue suggested by a federal judge — will prove futile, so an environmental group will press on with its suit against Exxon Mobil Corp., the group and Exxon said Tuesday.
November 30, 2018
Exxon Mobil Corp. and an environmental group suing the energy giant over its Boston-area petroleum storage terminal should bring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency into the case to see whether the 2011 permit for the terminal is still valid, a Massachusetts federal judge suggested at a hearing Friday.
January 01, 2018
Courts across the U.S. are poised to issue important rulings in environmental cases in the coming year, including a closely watched high court battle over where challenges to a rule defining the federal government’s jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act belong, and lawsuits seeking to reverse President Donald Trump’s moves to shrink national monuments. Here are the biggest environmental cases to watch in 2018.
December 21, 2017
Exxon Mobil Corp. on Wednesday urged a Massachusetts federal judge to toss the Conservation Law Foundation's amended suit against it over a Boston-area petroleum storage terminal, arguing that the suit still asserts speculative climate change claims the court previously dismissed.
September 13, 2017
A Massachusetts federal judge ruled that the Conservation Law Foundation didn't have standing to sue Exxon Mobil Corp. for injuries the group said would result from sea level rises occurring in the distant future in its suit involving the company's Boston-area petroleum storage terminal, partially granting the oil giant's dismissal bid.