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Latest News in Environmental

  • September 02, 2026

    Hess, Pioneer, Others Can't Duck Shale Oil Price-Fix Claims

    A New Mexico federal judge preserved the core of a consolidated proposed class action from consumers, businesses and local governments accusing Hess, Pioneer, Continental and other fossil fuel giants of conspiring to slow down shale oil production to drive up prices, tossing only a handful of state law claims.  

  • September 02, 2026

    NOAA Fisheries Lays Out Priorities For Trump Seafood Order

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's fisheries division announced several dozen priorities to boost the U.S. seafood industry Wednesday, prompting one environmental group to call it a "depraved laundry list" of ways the Trump administration is willing to sacrifice ocean life.

  • September 02, 2026

    Trump Foreign Equipment Order Perplexes Power Cos.

    The U.S. power industry is scrambling to make sense of President Donald Trump's sweeping executive order restricting imports of equipment used for the electricity grid, and attorneys say complying with the directive could ultimately make projects more expensive and take them longer to build.

  • September 02, 2026

    Crypto Mine Noise Suit Belongs In State Court, Neighbors Say

    Residents of a North Carolina town suing over allegedly excessive noise coming from a nearby cryptocurrency mining and AI data center want their lawsuit bumped back down to state court, arguing the damages they're seeking fall short of the threshold required for federal jurisdiction.

  • September 02, 2026

    Groups Push To Revive Challenges To Trump Monument Cuts

    Coalitions of conservation groups on Wednesday asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to reopen a series of stayed cases to try to overturn President Donald Trump's removal of millions of acres of land from the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah.

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