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August 20, 2026
Democratic senators Thursday urged a government watchdog to investigate whether the Internal Revenue Service has determined that liquefied natural gas exporters who use the fuel to propel their tankers can claim an alternative fuel tax credit.
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August 20, 2026
A federal grand jury charged an Alabama tax preparation business owner with preparing and filing fraudulent returns for clients and himself in a scheme that may have caused the federal government a tax loss of more than $65 million, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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August 20, 2026
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said Thursday it has agreed to acquire U.S. energy-management software provider PCI Energy Solutions for $1.4 billion, expanding its presence in the North American power market.
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August 20, 2026
Private equity behemoth KKR offered to acquire natural gas distributor UGI Corp. for $9 billion, fast-fashion company Shein is eyeing a $25 billion valuation ahead of its anticipated Hong Kong initial public offering, and e-commerce giant Alibaba sold its game developer business to Trustar Capital in a $2 billion deal. Here, Law360 breaks down the notable deal rumors from the past week.
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August 20, 2026
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to ensure appropriate measures are in place to assess whether a livestock grazing program in the Coronado National Forest is unduly harming two protected wildlife species, an Arizona federal judge ruled.
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August 20, 2026
A federal jury in Oklahoma found a highway runoff contracting business and two of its employees guilty of antitrust violations for a price-fixing conspiracy that allegedly impacted $100 million in publicly funded construction contracts in the state.
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August 20, 2026
The litigation trustee for wood-pellet producer Enviva Inc.'s Chapter 11 litigation trust has sued five former executives in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing them of secretly committing the company to more than $650 million in high-priced pellet purchases to boost short-term earnings and their chances of receiving bonuses, ultimately helping drive Enviva into bankruptcy.
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August 19, 2026
A Colorado-based snow removal equipment company and its Canadian sister company told a state court that a Norwegian manufacturer sold more than $10 million worth of equipment that contained engines not compliant with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requirements, causing more than $100 million in damages to the companies.
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August 19, 2026
The Air Force on Wednesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a Guam nonprofit's assertion that the military branch should have completed an environmental review before it applied to renew a hazardous waste permit allowing it to detonate expired munitions on the island.
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August 19, 2026
A top deputy in the U.S. Department of Justice's Energy and Natural Resources Division is leaving the agency, according to court documents filed on Wednesday.
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August 19, 2026
Minnesota will be home to firefighter turnout gear PFAS "forever chemical" federal lawsuits filed by municipal purchasers from 14 separate states, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has decided, consolidating current actions in Montana and California with lawsuits filed in the corporate home state of 3M Co.
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August 19, 2026
A D.C. federal judge predicted Wednesday that there could be wide-ranging implications for oversight of agency rulemaking if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is allowed to put California emissions waivers up for congressional review more than a decade after they were first granted.
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August 19, 2026
An environmental group accused the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of failing to follow through with protections for a freshwater mussel known as the green floater three years after it proposed to list the mussel as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
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August 19, 2026
Two conservation groups have sued to stop the sale of deep-sea mining rights across 31 million acres of seabed around American Samoa, arguing the National Marine Fisheries Service unlawfully determined the activity would not adversely affect endangered species and their habitat.
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August 19, 2026
The federal government won dismissal of most claims from environmental groups challenging a gold mining project, but the presiding federal Idaho judge did order the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to revise a statement estimating harm to wolverine and bull trout.
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August 19, 2026
A D.C. Circuit panel denied an environmental group's push to block $4.7 billion in financing the U.S. Export-Import Bank approved for a TotalEnergies EP liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique, finding the group unlikely to prevail in its challenge.
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August 19, 2026
Solar energy projects in Pennsylvania do not have to connect to the electrical grid to qualify for "solar renewable energy credits," allowing gas pipeline operator Williams Companies Inc. to get and sell credits for solar arrays that only power two remote compressor stations, a state appellate court ruled Wednesday.
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August 19, 2026
Marvell Technology has issued Google a warrant to buy up to 58.97 million shares of its common stock, worth about $12.2 billion at the warrant's exercise price, according to a Marvell securities filing Wednesday.
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August 18, 2026
The D.C. Circuit Tuesday backed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's designation of the two most common forms of forever chemicals as hazardous substances under federal Superfund law, rejecting arguments from industry that the agency didn't have a legal basis to do so.
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August 18, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Interior has received pushback from conservation groups that oppose five comment processes among three federal agencies as the DOI reviews policies affecting wilderness areas on public lands nationwide.
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August 18, 2026
The Fifth Circuit refused Tuesday to revive a private water utility's antitrust case targeting Texas' San Jacinto River Authority contract fees designed to reduce groundwater use, concluding that the contract was not designed to fix prices.
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August 18, 2026
The U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday said it's moving ahead with a plan to repeal a decades-old rule that has protected tens of millions of acres of national forest from road building and logging, asserting it has unacceptably hampered efforts to reduce wildfire risk.
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August 18, 2026
A district court judge vacated an Interior Department decision to exchange 500 acres to allow road construction on Izembek National Wildlife Refuge lands for failing to comply with the provision of a federal Alaskan land law, saying in a Tuesday order that the transaction has no "force or effect."
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August 18, 2026
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Tuesday he has signed an executive order imposing additional requirements on developers seeking to build data centers in the state, including a mandate that projects must obtain approval by local municipalities before the state will allow them to advance.
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August 18, 2026
The Trump administration's plans to install a National Garden of American Heroes in the capital's West Potomac Park remain too much of a preliminary concept to support a challenge brought by conservation and historic preservation groups, the U.S. Department of Justice told a Washington, D.C., federal judge.