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June 24, 2026
Four environmental groups have asked the D.C. Circuit to review the U.S. Department of Energy's emergency orders extending the life of a fossil fuel power plant outside Philadelphia, joining other litigation challenging the Trump administration's efforts to keep alive oil, gas and coal power generators that had been slated to shut down.
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June 24, 2026
Chemours has agreed to a settlement totaling more than $450 million over its release of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, across West Virginia, North Carolina and New Jersey, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
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June 23, 2026
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed an amended version of landmark housing legislation focused on expanding housing supply and lowering housing costs with a 358-32 vote, putting it on the track to President Donald Trump's desk.
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June 23, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice has determined that some of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's programs that waive fees for "socially disadvantaged" farmers unconstitutionally discriminate based on race and sex, according to an opinion released Monday.
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June 23, 2026
A Florida federal judge certified a class of Hertz investors following a $10 million deal to resolve claims that the rental company overstated consumer demand for its electric vehicles and later tried to offload the cars amid a $200 million earnings hit.
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June 23, 2026
A Tenth Circuit panel on Tuesday revived challenges to former President Joe Biden's designations of hundreds of thousands of acres as parts of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, finding that the Antiquities Act puts discernible limits on the president's discretion.
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June 23, 2026
An environmental organization on Monday sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture in D.C. federal court, seeking records behind President Donald Trump's executive order to hike the production of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup, an allegedly carcinogenic pesticide at the center of an imminent U.S. Supreme Court decision.
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June 23, 2026
Fourteen states are backing challenges to the Trump administration's decision to open up oil and gas leasing on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, telling the court that the seismic exploration will harm migratory birds and increase greenhouse gas emissions that already contribute to climate change.
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June 23, 2026
A doctrine limiting tort claims over contract losses did not bar a fraud claim tied to a fracking wastewater treatment project, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, affirming a more than $215 million judgment for Antero.
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June 23, 2026
A Pittsburgh-area township is suing a neighboring borough and sewer authority, asking a Pennsylvania state court to declare that the township has authority to update or terminate decades-old sewer service agreements that locked in rates that no longer reflect the cost of maintaining the system.
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June 23, 2026
Environmental groups' challenge to a discharge permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for work on a natural gas pipeline stretching across several Eastern states was voluntarily dismissed Monday at the Fourth Circuit.
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June 23, 2026
Clifford Chance LLP announced on Monday the hiring of a former Vinson & Elkins LLP attorney as a finance and derivatives partner in its Houston office.
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June 22, 2026
The U.S. Senate on Monday passed an amended version of landmark housing legislation focused on expanding housing supply and lowering housing costs with an 85-5 vote.
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June 22, 2026
Voters in Frederick County, Maryland, will not be able to have a say on a data center development zone, a state judge ruled in an order docketed Monday, agreeing with developers that under the county's charter, an ordinance is not a law subject to referendum.
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June 22, 2026
Seventeen states and the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors sued Golden State recycling regulators in California federal court Monday seeking to block a new state law regulating plastic packaging, slamming the law as California's "blatant and unprecedented attempt to impose its own policy preferences on the entire nation."
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June 22, 2026
Three companies spanning the broadband infrastructure, silver mining and e-scooter industries launched plans Monday for initial public offerings that could raise a combined $791 million if they price as planned during the week of June 29.
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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
A district court erred in denying a Colorado fire chief qualified immunity in a former union president's lawsuit alleging he was unlawfully terminated, the Tenth Circuit ruled Monday, finding that the former president failed to show the chief's actions violated "clearly established law."
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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
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 Washington federal judge is expected to soon determine if the Lummi Nation can block a telephone company from continuing to construct a broadband project at a location where Indigenous remains have been unearthed, after the telecom argued the tribe filed its challenge too late.
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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
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a Georgia refrigerants company's petition to review a 2020 environmental law and subsequent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations requiring an 85% reduction in hydrofluorocarbon consumption by 2036, rejecting a chance to either modify or replace the "intelligible principle" test in nondelegation cases.
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June 18, 2026
A group of environmental organizations has sued the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management for issuing oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico, saying the agency failed to review how the proposed explorations would influence the environment and endangered species.