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• March 31, 2026

  Chubb Investor Can't Add Climate Proposal In Proxy Material

  A D.C. federal judge declined to grant a preliminary injunction to a shareholder advocacy group suing Chubb for excluding its climate-related proposal from Chubb's yearly proxy materials, ruling Tuesday it hasn't shown the proposal falls outside U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations exempting proposals involving issues related to a company's ordinary business operations.

• March 31, 2026

  Wash. Creates Electric Transmission Authority With New Law

  Washington passed a law on Monday forming a state electric transmission authority to supercharge efforts to build out the Evergreen State's power grid through public-private partnerships and other initiatives, with a focus on shifting to renewable energy sources to meet the state's decarbonization goals. 

• March 31, 2026

  Ariz. Judge Keeps Oak Flat Stay Pending 9th Circ. Rehearing

  An Arizona federal judge has agreed with Apache tribal members and environmental groups that a stay should remain in place as they await a Ninth Circuit decision on their legal fight to block the transfer of 2,500 acres to a copper mining company.

• March 31, 2026

  Verizon Can't Enforce Tower Lease, Judge Says

  Verizon Wireless did not provide the North Carolina landowner it signed a cell tower equipment lease with what it had promised in the bargain, and therefore the lease is not valid, a North Carolina federal court has ruled.

• March 31, 2026

  Judge Sides With Navy In Hunters Point Cleanup Challenge

  An environmental justice group failed to show that the U.S. Navy's remediation plan for the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund site is arbitrary and capricious despite an analysis showing cancer risks exceeded the acceptable range, a California federal judge ruled.

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