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  • September 14, 2026

    21 States Seek To Halt Corteva's $39B PFAS Liability Spinoff

    The attorney general of California and 20 other states asked the South Carolina federal court managing multidistrict litigation over forever chemicals on Monday to stop Corteva Inc. from spinning off $39 billion in assets into a new company called Vylor Inc. to avoid liabilities from contamination over the substances.

  • September 14, 2026

    Pa. Warns Data Center Growth Could Overwhelm Supply

    The Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission said in a Monday report that the state's electric grid by 2030 will carry a risk of outage nearly six times greater than a reliability standard for the region allows, based on the likeliest scenario to follow a rush of data center-driven electricity demand.

  • September 14, 2026

    Hyliion Investors End Suit Over Data Center Deal

    A proposed class of Hyliion Holdings Corp. investors has voluntarily dropped its suit against the linear generators company, which was accused in Texas federal court of overhyping a data center partnership with an artificial intelligence infrastructure company.

  • September 14, 2026

    NY Village Can Pursue PFAS Claims Against Local Cos.

    A New York federal judge won't let a group of manufacturing and industrial companies out of a suit by the Village of Nyack alleging they contaminated the water supply with so-called "forever chemicals," saying the allegations in the complaint make a plausible claim under state and federal environmental law.

  • September 14, 2026

    BREAKING: EPA Repeals Power Plant Greenhouse Gas Rule

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday finalized the rescission of a Biden-era rule that limited greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, and separately suggested that the agency shouldn't be regulating greenhouse gases emitted by the electricity sector.

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