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June 22, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court awarded plaintiffs' attorneys more than $23 million in fees and expenses for securing an $83.8 million settlement that resolved long-running shareholder litigation over Brookfield Asset Management's 2020 take-private merger with renewable energy company TerraForm Power Inc.
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June 22, 2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's "campaign of hostility" toward waivers that allow California to set its own greenhouse gas emissions standards now includes an unlawful plan to have Congress undo granted waivers related to "clean" vehicles and other engines, California claimed Monday in a D.C. federal court lawsuit.
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June 22, 2026
The last three years have been the worst on record for the United States when it comes to damage from weather and climate disasters, and both the private and public sectors have been trying to find ways to harden the nation's telecommunication networks and keep them running during disasters, as climate catastrophes show no sign of letting up.
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June 22, 2026
A California company that claims to have created products allowing for more efficient lithium-ion batteries accused a Chinese company of infringing its patents, asking the U.S. International Trade Commission to block imports of the foreign company's products.
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June 22, 2026
A treasure hunter told a Texas federal judge Monday his erstwhile financial sponsor cut him off from his rightful share of sunken treasure found in the Caribbean, saying during the first day of a bench trial that the backer's "hubris" drove the decision to breach the parties' contract.
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June 22, 2026
A former Conrad & Scherer LLP managing partner must pay an Alabama coal company's attorney fees after being publicly reprimanded by an Alabama federal judge, who found he lied to the court and paid witnesses to change their testimony in his repeated lawsuits against the company.
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June 22, 2026
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission defended its continued approval of a liquefied natural gas project in South Texas, telling the D.C. Circuit it had addressed the court's previous concerns by expanding its analysis of the project's polluting effects.
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June 22, 2026
A Texas bankruptcy judge Monday approved natural gas compressor company Axip's Chapter 11 plan, allowing the debtor to wind down its remaining assets after selling most of the business earlier this year.
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June 22, 2026
An electric vehicle charging station company and a former employee have agreed to end his religious discrimination suit filed in Georgia federal court claiming the business fired him for leaving work early so that he could observe the Jewish Sabbath.
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June 22, 2026
A Georgia energy company and a former technician reached a settlement Monday in a Georgia federal court in a proposed collective action alleging the company misclassified maintenance workers as independent contractors to avoid paying overtime.
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June 18, 2026
The Defense Logistics Agency's decision to not consider a company's bid for supplying fuel products to a Virginia airport after it got stuck in email filter system purgatory was not arbitrary nor capricious, a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge has ruled.
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June 18, 2026
When Sarah Ring joined patent litigation over drilling fluids late in the game, opposing counsel Michelle Replogle was impressed, saying it was "a great example of how to capably handle the cards that you're dealt."
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June 18, 2026
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday directed regional grid operators to craft their own policies that speed up the connection of data centers and other large facilities to the grid, eschewing a nationally applicable rule advocated by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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June 18, 2026
A federal regulator must comply with the Endangered Species Act as it operates a water management initiative in southern Oregon and northern California, the Ninth Circuit ruled, without adjudicating particular usage rights among irrigators, tribes and others.
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June 18, 2026
The owner of a Colorado mine claimed in state court Wednesday that regulators intentionally delayed a permitting process by misleading the owner to get the mine closed permanently, in violation of the owner's due process rights.
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June 18, 2026
A Turkish exporter of aluminum sheets will be assessed a 2.14% duty after the U.S. Court of International Trade signed off on a third reconsideration of the rate, agreeing with the government that the company's submission backing a duty refund was too late.
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June 18, 2026
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has boosted its energy and infrastructure practice with a Houston-based partner who came aboard from Latham & Watkins LLP.
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June 17, 2026
A New York judge Wednesday declined to permanently bar former majority owners of Eletson Gas from attempting to exercise control over the company or interfering with new leadership, finding the request goes beyond the initial relief sought.
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June 17, 2026
United Power Trades Organization, which represents hundreds of hydropower dam workers employed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, launched a lawsuit in Seattle federal court Tuesday seeking to preserve its collective bargaining rights after the Trump administration ended its union contract pursuant to a March 2025 executive order.
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June 17, 2026
The Third Circuit has agreed to a two-month postponement of oral arguments in Venezuela's challenge of a Delaware judge's order greenlighting the nearly $6 billion sale of Citgo to satisfy billions of dollars of the country's debt, days after Caracas announced that it was switching counsel.
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June 17, 2026
Citigroup urged a Florida federal magistrate judge Wednesday to dismiss racketeering claims in a suit accusing the bank of running a massive cash advance fraud scheme, arguing the bondholder plaintiffs suffered no domestic injury that would allow them to sue under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute.
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June 17, 2026
Colorado on Tuesday urged the Tenth Circuit to vacate the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's rejection of the state's plan to limit regional haze, calling the agency's argument that closing a coal-fired power plant might be unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment a "pretext for propping up" the industry.
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June 17, 2026
The Trump administration has agreed to pay Invenergy $765 million to voluntarily give up its affiliates' four offshore wind leases in the New York Bight, California's central coast and the Gulf of Maine in exchange for funneling cash into U.S. oil and gas development, according to a joint announcement Wednesday.
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June 17, 2026
The Group of Seven issued a joint statement Wednesday that indicated the countries would commit to working together in several policy areas related to securing critical mineral supply chains, and included a pledge to coordinate a response if access to those resources is restricted.
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June 17, 2026
Plaintiffs alleging they developed Parkinson's disease from an herbicide asked a Philadelphia judge to block bids by Syngenta and Chevron to move the cases out of the city's mass tort system, arguing that the companies already tried that and failed.