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  • August 04, 2026

    5th Circ. Confronts Intervention Row In Prairie-Chicken Suit

    A Fifth Circuit panel appeared skeptical of a U.S. government attorney's assertion that an environmental advocacy group waited too long to enter a lawsuit to contest the Trump administration's decision to scrap an endangered species listing for the lesser prairie-chicken.

  • August 04, 2026

    Edison Equip. Sparked Eaton Fire, LA County Report Finds

    Los Angeles County fire authorities on Tuesday released an investigation report on the origins of the January 2025 Eaton Fire, finding that the devastating fire ignited after a "glowing material" fell from an electrical event on Southern California Edison transmission towers into a dry fuel bed.

  • August 04, 2026

    US Beekeepers Say USDA Mislabels 'Organic' Foreign Honey

    Federal regulations wrongly allow foreign honey producers to describe their products as "organic" while at the same time barring large-scale production of organic honey domestically, a group of commercial beekeepers claimed Monday in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

  • August 04, 2026

    States Warn SEC Against 'Unlawful' Climate Rule Withdrawal

    A coalition of Democratic attorneys general are warning the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its plan to discard a corporate climate disclosure regulation is "unlawful," adding their voices to a chorus of state and local pension funds urging the agency to abandon the planned regulatory withdrawal.

  • August 04, 2026

    DC Circ. Upholds Injunction Forcing EPA To Fund Clean Energy

    A split D.C. Circuit affirmed a lower court decision blocking the Trump administration from freezing $20 billion in clean-energy grant money Tuesday, overturning a divided circuit panel decision from September that vacated the injunction and would have allowed the administration to claw back the funding.

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