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June 04, 2026
Texas and the U.S. Interior Department asked a federal judge to approve a settlement vacating the Biden-era designation of a lizard species as endangered, after Texas argued that the move was unfounded and imperiled energy development around the Permian Basin.
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June 04, 2026
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP announced Thursday that a former associate who began her legal career at the firm has returned as a partner in the energy and infrastructure projects group after working in-house roles for nearly five years.
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June 04, 2026
Van-type trailers from China and Mexico are facing countervailing duty orders after the U.S. Department of Commerce preliminarily found Thursday they are benefiting from government subsidies, though it dropped its investigation into Canadian versions of the products.
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June 04, 2026
Environmental groups told the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Air Act by extending without justification compliance deadlines for initiating requirements aimed at reducing methane pollution from the oil and gas sector.
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June 04, 2026
Innio, a manufacturer of gas engines used to power artificial intelligence systems, began trading Thursday on the Nasdaq after raising $2.4 billion in an upsized initial public offering guided by Latham & Watkins LLP and Milbank LLP.
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June 03, 2026
Federal prosecutors argued Tuesday that a Washington man should be sentenced to 63 months in prison for moving tens of millions of dollars from investors to overseas bank and cryptocurrency accounts as part of a fraud scheme, while the defendant sought a 15-month sentence, saying he was enticed by "sophisticated international criminals."
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June 03, 2026
Counsel for the families of three women who died of ovarian cancer delivered closing arguments Wednesday in their six-week-long bellwether lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, telling jurors that decades-old internal documents prove the company hid that its talc was contaminated with asbestos.
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June 03, 2026
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims dismissed a Siemens unit's lawsuit seeking roughly $2.2 million in bid-preparation costs over an energy savings task order the U.S. Army ultimately didn't issue, finding the overarching contract expressly barred such recovery.
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June 03, 2026
A Fifth Circuit panel on Tuesday affirmed a decision finding that ChampionX Corp. lacked the contractual standing to sue insurers for coverage of a $40 million oil spill lawsuit involving one of its subsidiaries, but gave the company a chance to add parties to its complaint in the lower court.
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June 03, 2026
A North Dakota federal judge granted the government an early win in a Colorado energy company's bid for the court to vacate a series of Bureau of Indian Affairs decisions that found it didn't own interest in an oil lease, upholding the agency's decision that the company lacked standing.
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June 03, 2026
New Jersey told a federal court this week it has reached agreements with all but two of the parties that objected to proposed deals worth a combined $3 billion with 3M Co. and various DuPont entities to resolve claims over contamination caused by forever chemicals, saying the agreements further support the court's approval of the settlements.
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June 03, 2026
An Alabama federal judge refused to disturb a $120 million verdict against a former Conrad & Scherer LLP managing partner, ruling there was enough evidence at trial for a jury to find the attorney liable on Drummond Co.'s racketeering and defamation claims.
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June 03, 2026
The principal contractor for the Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm is appealing a Massachusetts state court decision denying its renewed bid to quit the project and move the dispute to arbitration.
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June 03, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's plan to withdraw corporate climate disclosure regulations could see the commission back in court two years after it was sued for adopting those same regulations, with investor advocates questioning the legality of the agency's change of direction.
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June 03, 2026
Iowa nuclear energy facilities that are beginning or restarting operation are eligible for a sales tax exemption on purchases of materials under a law signed by the governor.
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June 03, 2026
Cooley LLP announced Wednesday that it has hired a pair of Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorneys who the firm says strengthen its ability to guide clients through the full life cycle of infrastructure investments.
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June 03, 2026
Sixty economies are facing added tariffs of either 10% or 12.5% on their exports to the U.S. following investigations by the U.S. Trade Representative's Office into countries' protections against the importing of goods produced with forced labor.
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June 03, 2026
Oklahoma's governor pocket vetoed a bill that would have excluded solar power companies and battery energy storage systems from a property tax exemption for manufacturing facilities.
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June 03, 2026
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced what it is calling a government-to-government mechanism that will manage bilateral trade between the U.S. and China, including by considering tariff cuts, and asked for public comments on the program's development.
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June 03, 2026
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP announced Monday that it has welcomed a corporate partner from Dechert LLP, touting his role in large mergers and acquisitions in the life sciences, financial services, consumer and retail, energy, technology and industrial sectors.
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June 02, 2026
A geologist on Tuesday told a California jury considering bellwether claims that Johnson & Johnson's talc products caused their deadly ovarian cancer that he tested the products for years and the company never asked him to lie about any results, even after he discovered asbestos in a World War II-era bottle.
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June 02, 2026
The Business Court of Texas shifted the $5 million racial discrimination lawsuit of a former Exxon Mobil Corp. executive back to state district court, determining that no provision in the state's governing laws gives it jurisdiction over employment disputes.
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June 02, 2026
Silver Bull Resources Inc. has lost its $375 million claim against Mexico over the country's alleged failure to remove a "blockade" at a silver and zinc mine in the north of the country, the Canadian mining company said Monday.
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June 02, 2026
California's air pollution regulator has told a federal judge that Congress and the Trump administration violated separation of powers and federalism principles by passing unlawful resolutions blocking state emissions regulations for heavy-duty trucks, arguing the regulations should still take effect.
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June 02, 2026
Electric vehicle maker Lucid Group Inc. was hit with a proposed investor class action alleging that the company made misleading statements about its production and sales before revealing an issue with a supplier was affecting vehicle deliveries, adding to the list of shareholder litigation it faces over production.