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July 27, 2026
An Idaho agribusiness is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to undo a Ninth Circuit decision that invalidated a U.S. Department of the Interior land transfer over tribal concerns of contamination from a planned fertilizer plant expansion, arguing the ruling undermines the country's food security, thousands of jobs and millions in economic activity.
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July 27, 2026
DuPont de Nemours Inc., Corteva Inc., The Chemours Co. and their affiliates are asking a North Carolina federal court to throw out a suit from a water utility alleging they contaminated water systems with so-called forever chemicals, saying the complaint is too vague to support the claims.
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July 27, 2026
Republic Services' six-year-long delay in expanding water treatment facilities at a Pennsylvania landfill led a federal judge to impose a $9.2 million civil penalty for violations of the Clean Water Act.
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July 27, 2026
Environmental organizations asked a Washington federal judge Monday to overturn a nationwide permit the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reissued for oil and gas pipelines, accusing the agency of allowing companies to fast-track stream crossings without the appropriate considerations or safeguards.
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July 27, 2026
The Tenth Circuit upheld Colorado's up-to-$3-a-day congestion impact fee on short-term vehicle rentals Monday, ruling that the charge falls on consumers rather than airport rental car companies.
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July 27, 2026
A group of CNA units said they owe no coverage to a textile company accused in an underlying suit of contaminating drinking water in South Carolina with so-called forever chemicals, telling an Ohio federal court that an absolute pollution exclusion in their policies bars coverage.
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July 27, 2026
Expand Energy said Monday it will acquire privately held natural gas marketer Twin Eagle Holdings for $1.25 billion from Five Point Infrastructure, a deal that will help bolster the North American natural gas production giant's marketing operations.
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July 24, 2026
Owners and lessees of the large cold-storage warehouse with a flammable, anhydrous ammonia refrigeration system that caught fire last month in Boyle Heights were hit with a proposed negligence class action Friday in California state court by a plaintiff who lives about a mile and a half from the facility.
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July 24, 2026
An Oregon federal judge declined to halt a federal forest management project, saying a pair of conservation organizations were unlikely to prevail on their claim that the project had changed substantially enough to warrant a supplemental environmental review after it was approved.
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July 24, 2026
Three Indigenous Alaskan villages and a conservation group are challenging a Clean Water Act permit and biological opinion the government issued that will allow for construction of a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, alleging in a new lawsuit the decisions violated a slew of environmental laws.
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July 24, 2026
In one of the most-watched cases for product liability so far this year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that failure-to-warn claims about the alleged cancer risks of Monsanto's widely used pesticide Roundup are barred by federal law. Social media titans were also rocked by the first verdicts delivered in cases alleging mental health harms to youth.
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July 24, 2026
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Brookfield Asset Management acquires Aypa Power from funds managed by Blackstone Energy Transition Partners, Brookfield and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board buy LXP Industrial Trust, and Novagold Resources Inc. and Paulson Advisers LLC agree to give Novagold full ownership of Donlin Gold LLC.
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July 24, 2026
A proposed class action accusing commercial real estate services giant Cushman & Wakefield of mismanaging its 401(k) plan by including a fund that ignores climate change-related financial risks has been transferred to Illinois federal court by a Washington federal judge, according to a recently filed order.
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July 24, 2026
The past week in London has seen financial advice firm Smith Square Partners sue ailing social housing company Home REIT, Pogust Goodhead hit with a contract claim by one of its investors, and Entain faced with its latest claim in expanding litigation linked to alleged bribery at its former Turkish business. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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July 23, 2026
President Donald Trump during a Thursday event urged utilities, data center developers and states to sign a voluntary pledge to prevent average ratepayers from shouldering the cost of artificial intelligence infrastructure.
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July 23, 2026
An Eleventh Circuit panel appeared wary Thursday as it weighed whether members of a regional fishery management council were lawfully appointed, in a challenge to a National Marine Fisheries Service regulation that sharply reduced how many gag grouper fish could be caught in the Gulf of Mexico.
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July 23, 2026
A Colorado appellate panel unanimously held Thursday in a first impression ruling that the holder of an overriding royalty interest carved out of a nonconsenting oil and gas owner's stake can't collect payments until consenting owners who fronted development costs have recovered those costs and a statutory penalty.
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July 23, 2026
Heading into the back half of 2026, insurance attorneys can expect federal and state courts to interpret how general liability policy language applies to some of the industry's biggest emerging risks. Law360 Insurance Authority breaks down three CGL-related cases.
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July 23, 2026
A California federal judge Wednesday approved a $27.5 million agreement a Golden State regulator and seven companies submitted for litigation over the cleanup of a former lead smelting and battery recycling facility near Los Angeles.
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July 23, 2026
Hawaii and environmental groups asked the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to overturn a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decision to partially reject a plan the Aloha State submitted to improve air quality in national parks that would have retired some older power plants.
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July 23, 2026
DuPont spinoff The Chemours Co. FC LLC urged the Fourth Circuit not to revive an antitrust suit from a refrigerant distributor alleging it was effectively denied access to a key refrigerant, arguing Wednesday that there's nothing monopolistic about refusing to sell "on the plaintiff's own preferred terms."
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July 23, 2026
Dallas-based oil and gas company Matador Resources said Thursday that it plans to buy an EnCap Investments subsidiary operating in the Permian Basin for $1.3 billion and separately acquire acreage in Texas and New Mexico from another EnCap company in a deal guided by Baker Botts LLP and Vinson & Elkins LLP.
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July 23, 2026
The former U.S. Department of the Interior's deputy assistant secretary for land and minerals management has a new role at Holland & Hart LLP's Washington, D.C., office.
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July 22, 2026
A D.C. federal judge appeared reluctant Wednesday to hand the Tohono O'odham Nation a preliminary injunction blocking the construction of 62 miles of border wall within what the tribe claims are its lands, saying that what the tribe was asking him to do was unprecedented.
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July 22, 2026
A South Carolina federal judge Wednesday told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency it must comply with the court's prior order and continue administering a $2.8 billion environmental and climate justice grant funding program that was authorized by Congress in 2022.