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May 06, 2026
A judge hinted Wednesday that he could somewhat limit the topics ExxonMobil may broach in an upcoming deposition of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office as the energy giant defends itself from the commonwealth's greenwashing allegations.
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May 06, 2026
A South Dakota federal judge has temporarily paused a graphite drilling project near a site that tribes consider sacred, finding that Indigenous tribes and conservation nonprofits will likely show the U.S. Forest Service avoided a full environmental review by treating the multi-year project as a short-term one.
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May 06, 2026
Two Chubb insurers must defend an upstate New York town against a state environmental department's claim concerning a regional airport's contamination by so-called forever chemicals unless and until they can establish the claim falls outside an exception to a pollution exclusion, the Second Circuit affirmed.
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May 06, 2026
A German shipping company and a marine insurer will pay $17 million to end a dispute alleging they were liable for damage done to 7,000 square meters of coral reef off the coast of Puerto Rico when an oil tanker ran aground in 2006, according to a Puerto Rico federal judge's Tuesday order approving the agreement.
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May 06, 2026
A California federal judge has ordered Federal Emergency Management Agency and U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials to preserve Signal messages tied to FEMA operations in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's restructuring efforts, citing concerns that officials used disappearing-message settings while discussing matters relevant to the case.
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May 06, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to rescind a Biden-era requirement that publicly traded companies disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, with staff informing the Office of Management and Budget this week of the planned rescission.
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May 06, 2026
Massachusetts' top court on Wednesday seemed to agree that an ongoing dispute between the state attorney general and auditor over a voter-backed audit of the legislature needs to come to an end, even as justices dinged both sides for the stalemate.
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May 05, 2026
Federal permits exempting recreational anglers in Florida and three other southeastern states from annual red snapper catch limits will lead to "overfishing" in the South Atlantic, commercial fishing groups and businesses alleged in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in D.C. federal court.
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May 05, 2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told the D.C. Circuit Tuesday that the lower court rightly found farmers, who accused the agency of not regulating "forever chemicals" in sewage sludge, did not identify how the agency violated the Clean Water Act.
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May 05, 2026
BlackRock and State Street have further urged a Texas federal judge to trim down antitrust claims from Republican state attorneys general accusing the asset managers of driving up coal prices, arguing that the chain from their investment activity to retail electricity prices "stretches through multiple intervening markets and countless nonparties."
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May 05, 2026
Native CDFI Network Inc. is suing the United States for terminating a $400 million Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grant, saying the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency invoked "a potpourri of shifting reasons" for the cancellation before landing on the assertion its priorities had changed.
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May 05, 2026
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC announced Tuesday that the former vice president of legal at solar energy company Sunrun has joined the firm's San Francisco office as an energy and climate solutions partner.
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May 05, 2026
Mallesons-advised Regis Resources Ltd. and Vault Minerals Ltd., a fellow Australian gold producer represented by Corrs Chambers Westgarth, said Tuesday they will merge in an all-share deal, creating a top Australian producer with a roughly $7.7 billion market capitalization.
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May 05, 2026
Transocean Ltd. disclosed Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division was scrutinizing its plan to acquire rival Valaris Ltd. in an all-stock deal valued at about $5.8 billion, pausing the combination of two of the largest offshore drilling fleets into a $17 billion operator.
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May 04, 2026
A Hawaii federal magistrate judge said a settlement reached for 176 minor plaintiffs with claims in litigation over water contamination stemming from jet fuel spills at the U.S. Navy Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in the Aloha State should be approved.
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May 04, 2026
California's insurance regulator announced Monday that it's pursuing major penalties against State Farm over its alleged mishandling of claims related to 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, the same day the U.S. Department of Justice alleged in court that insurers conspired to cancel homeowners' policies in the years before the fires.
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May 04, 2026
A federal judge found Monday that a group of public utility districts in Washington state had breached the U.S.' Columbia River Treaty by failing to contribute their pledged share of hydroelectric power to Canada.
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May 04, 2026
The federal government moved to halt Minnesota's state court lawsuit accusing Exxon Mobil Corp. and others of lying to the public about fossil fuels' effects on climate, alleging in a new lawsuit on Monday that the state is usurping federal authority.
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May 04, 2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has urged a California federal court to block a Trump administration order that invoked emergency powers under the Defense Production Act to restart a Santa Barbara oil pipeline on the state's coast.
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May 04, 2026
The U.S. Forest Service is fighting three Indigenous rights and conservation nonprofits' bid to undo its streamlined approval of exploratory drilling within Black Hills National Forest that they say will harm a sacred worship site, arguing to a South Dakota federal court that the groups' allegations are just speculation.
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May 04, 2026
Conservation groups told a D.C. federal court Monday that the federal government failed to respond to a petition to revise a whale species' critical habitat designation under the Endangered Species Act, noting more than a year has elapsed.
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May 04, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court on Monday approved a $55.3 million settlement resolving derivative claims that Noble Environmental Inc.'s founders diverted a multibillion-dollar renewable energy opportunity to themselves through Archaea Energy, which BP later bought for $4.1 billion.
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May 04, 2026
A Wisconsin federal judge has temporarily blocked the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians from stopping nonmembers from fishing for walleye and musky in 19 lakes within its reservation, after the state challenged the Indigenous nation's use of its hunting and fishing laws to cite anglers.
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May 04, 2026
Global oil giants and an industry group have said Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has no basis to allege they conspired to restrict renewable energy and delay the transition away from fossil fuels in violation of federal antitrust laws.
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May 01, 2026
Nine Sioux Nations are asking a South Dakota federal court to block the approval of exploratory drilling in the Black Hills National Forest, saying the federal government didn't consider the potential effects the project will have on a sacred Indigenous worship site that contains hundreds of cultural properties.