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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.
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July 22, 2026
A Montana federal judge says the U.S. Department of the Interior can't pause challenges to its Yellowstone National Park bison management plan while the agency prepares a supplemental environmental impact statement, finding the conservation group plaintiffs would suffer a hardship if the proceedings were put on hold.
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July 22, 2026
Nineteen states and the District of Columbia are urging a Maryland federal judge to vacate federal agencies' implementation of President Donald Trump's executive order requiring government contractors to agree that they won't engage in "racially discriminatory" diversity, equity and inclusion activities.
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July 22, 2026
Solar developer Canadian Solar Inc. has been sued by a buyer of one of its projects who claims the company reneged on a pledge to secure a project site approval and stuck it with millions of dollars in remediation costs.
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July 22, 2026
Novagold Resources Inc. and Paulson Advisers have agreed to a deal that will give Novagold full ownership of Donlin Gold LLC, the owner of Alaska's Donlin Gold project, and create a new parent company with an expected $4.2 billion equity value, with five law firms advising the companies.
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July 22, 2026
Critical mineral refiner Nth Cycle Inc., led by Latham & Watkins LLP, on Wednesday revealed plans to go public by merging with Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP-led special purpose acquisition company Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp. VI in a $585 million deal.
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July 22, 2026
A Texas federal judge approved a settlement in which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to scrap a Biden-era rule Texas challenged that listed the dunes sagebrush lizard as endangered, sparking an outcry from the group that sought the listing.
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July 22, 2026
A Massachusetts state court judge on Wednesday rejected Exxon Mobil's bid to revive constitutional claims in what he called an already "over-litigated" public records lawsuit against state environmental regulators.
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July 21, 2026
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday upheld the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's updated rules for renewing nuclear power plant licenses, rejecting arguments from antinuclear groups that the rules don't adequately account for climate change risks.
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July 21, 2026
Eighteen Democratic attorneys general and the city of New York filed a petition with the D.C. Circuit Tuesday over a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule they argue will weaken federal limits on hydrofluorocarbons, which are refrigerants used in air conditioning and cooling systems.
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July 21, 2026
California and environmental groups have told the Ninth Circuit that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision clarifying federal arbitration jurisdictional lines has no bearing on their lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's assertion of jurisdiction over an in-state oil pipeline system.
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July 21, 2026
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday revived a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's termination of nearly $3 billion in environmental justice grants, saying a district court had neglected a key jurisdictional question when it dismissed the suit.
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July 21, 2026
The D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday that the Federal Aviation Administration sufficiently analyzed the environmental impacts of a regional Connecticut airport expansion project, saying the U.S. Supreme Court's Seven County ruling made clear that courts cannot override agencies' reasonable National Environmental Policy Act judgments or explanations.
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July 21, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service is trying to disallow a partnership donor's $19.1 million charitable deduction for a Georgia conservation easement with limited expert testimony, the partnership told the U.S. Tax Court, arguing that approach violates the rules governing valuation cases.
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July 21, 2026
The operators of the ship that slammed into Baltimore's Key Bridge in 2024 blasted economic damages claims from the city and county of Baltimore, as well as private claimants, telling a federal judge that none had a proprietary interest in the bridge because it was owned by the state.
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July 21, 2026
A nonprofit in Guam asked the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a ruling that the U.S. Air Force shirked environmental review duties when it applied to renew a permit to detonate expired munitions, as well as reject the agency's attempts to avoid them.
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July 21, 2026
A Washington tribe and an environmental group are asking the Ninth Circuit to deny a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission bid to hold a challenge against the agency's issuance of a hydroelectric license in abeyance, arguing that it won't stop the project from moving toward construction that will destroy resources.
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July 20, 2026
Environmental and community groups asked a Texas federal judge Friday to grant them summary judgment in their lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's waiver of dozens of environmental and other federal laws to speed border wall construction across roughly 430 miles, arguing it's a clear violation of the major questions doctrine.
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July 20, 2026
Environmental groups asked a D.C. federal court Monday to halt a deal that will see hundreds of acres of formerly protected habitat near the Texas Coast transferred to Space Exploration Technologies Corp., saying that an immediate injunction is needed to block the transfer while litigation plays out.
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July 20, 2026
A California federal judge ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to designate areas of the country as either meeting, or not, national regulations for soot and other particulate matter by February, handing a win to 10 states and nonprofit groups that sued the agency for failing to do so.
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July 20, 2026
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims' long-awaited decision on a California wind farm's valuation for a now-defunct cash grant program offers insight into an issue on which the IRS has issued little guidance: how to value clean energy projects financed by the investment tax credit.