/environmental?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Environmental Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:47:18 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372544?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372544 A Manhattan federal judge on Friday rejected a request from 16 states to block the Trump administration from cutting millions of dollars in grant funds from the National Science Foundation for scientific research and programs aimed at enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM fields and environmental justice. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:26:26 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372400?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372400 The D.C. Circuit on Friday backed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's decision to limit its review of a Texas pipeline to a 1,000-foot section near the U.S.-Mexico border, saying the agency had reasonably explained why a broader review wasn't required. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:19:03 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372482?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372482 A Texas federal judge Friday gave Texas and other states the go-ahead to pursue claims that BlackRock Inc. and other asset managers used market muscle to decrease coal production, saying the states plausibly showed that the asset managers breached antitrust laws. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:50:25 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372228?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372228 An Alaska judge threw out a breach of trust claim against the federal government and a mining company in a challenge to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decision to issue a permit for an open gold mine near the Yukon border. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:58:44 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372215?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372215 Two newly unveiled mergers involving special purpose acquisition companies will aim to take a nuclear energy company and an Italian e-grocery operation public on U.S. exchanges at a combined value of nearly $500 million. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:40:38 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372314?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372314 A property investment company can raise nearly none of its claims against its insurer for hailstorm damage from 2019 and 2023, a North Carolina federal court ruled, finding that because claims concerning the 2019 storm are time-barred, those corresponding documents can't support much of the 2023 claims. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:00:11 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372414?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372414 The D.C. Circuit on Friday rejected refrigerant companies' challenges to a law requiring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to phase down the use of hydrofluorocarbons and said the cap-and-trade program implementing the law was based on sound methodology. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:56:27 +0000 /environmental/articles/2367457?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2367457 After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:33:33 +0000 /environmental/articles/2371390?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2371390 The North Carolina General Assembly has pushed through another round of hurricane relief aid to help the western swath of the state while lawmakers remain in talks to repeal a long-standing healthcare law that critics say hampers competition. Here are five North Carolina bills from the year's first half that saw the governor's stamp of approval or remain up for debate. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:26:12 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372379?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372379 In this week's Taxation With Representation, Union Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. announce megamerger plans, Palo Alto Networks acquires identity security company CyberArk, Brookfield buys British life insurer Just Group, and Duke Energy sells its Piedmont Natural Gas Tennessee local distribution business to Spire Inc. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:47:14 +0000 /environmental/articles/2371112?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2371112 CSX Transportation Inc. has agreed to settle its multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a North Carolina sand and gravel mine over a 2018 derailment during Hurricane Florence that destroyed its locomotives, ending the litigation just one week before trial was set to begin. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:26:28 +0000 /environmental/articles/2371720?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2371720 A divided Eleventh Circuit on Thursday granted a Georgia man whose horses were seized by Atlanta-area authorities a fresh shot at amending a lawsuit over the seizure, with the majority saying the lower court wrongly found that amending the suit was futile under the Fifth Amendment's takings clause. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:17:31 +0000 /environmental/articles/2371860?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2371860 A California state judge added $195 million in exemplary damages to a $605 million trade secrets verdict against oil giant Phillips 66 following its "abusive behavior" toward startup and onetime acquisition target Propel Fuels. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:15:46 +0000 /environmental/articles/2371349?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2371349 A Florida federal judge has allowed the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida to intervene in a lawsuit filed by green groups against the immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" constructed in the Everglades after the tribe argued the facility poses a direct threat to its livelihood. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:09:35 +0000 /environmental/articles/2371774?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2371774 Several state utility regulators have urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reject a regional grid operator's $21.8 billion transmission development plan, saying the plan's benefits are overstated and wrongly forces them to subsidize the clean energy goals of other states. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:42:56 +0000 /environmental/articles/2371669?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2371669 Armed with new counsel, Eco Oro Minerals Corp. said Thursday it will look to revive its damages claim against Colombia after an international tribunal found that the country had breached an underlying treaty by blocking the Canadian precious metals company's mining project to protect surrounding wetlands. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:48:00 +0000 /environmental/articles/2371351?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2371351 A Kansas office building's property insurer has no duty to provide coverage for roughly $1.75 million in repairs over a broken water pipe, the Tenth Circuit ruled, rejecting the building owner's argument that an exception in one exclusion conflicted with a separate exclusion for water damage. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:48:19 +0000 /environmental/articles/2371833?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2371833 Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has asked the Fifth Circuit to uphold its indemnification win against an environmental remediation company in connection with a decade-old Louisiana kickback suit, writing that "one who makes his own bed must lie in it." Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:37:05 +0000 /environmental/articles/2371332?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2371332 The former CEO of an oil and gas company in Colorado has filed a complaint in state court against the company and its current CEO, claiming he was put on administrative leave without being informed of his alleged misconduct and was defamed by the new top executive. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:22:58 +0000 /environmental/articles/2369190?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2369190 A recently enacted law reforming the California Environmental Quality Act has been touted by state leaders as a fix for the state's housing crisis — but provisions including a new theoretically optional traffic mitigation fee could offset any potential benefits, says attorney David Smith.