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May 20, 2026
A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday seemed wary of administration attorneys' claims that a new fishery permitting regime exempting four southeastern states from recreational red snapper catch limits this year would help data collection for future limits.
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May 20, 2026
Target urged a California federal judge to nix a proposed class action alleging its Good & Gather tuna products are deceptively labeled as "sustainably caught," arguing Tuesday the plaintiff takes issue with the global commercial tuna fishing industry, which "may reflect some bad actors, but none by Target's suppliers."
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May 19, 2026
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Goodwin Procter LLP are advising semiconductor company Analog Devices Inc. and Empower Semiconductor in a $1.5 billion all-cash tie-up, according to an announcement made Tuesday.
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May 19, 2026
Monsanto has reached multimillion-dollar deals with Michigan and Rhode Island to end claims that the company contaminated waterways and natural resources with polychlorinated biphenyls, agreeing to pay the states as much as $240 million and $62 million, respectively, with most of that money contingent on how the company recovers from separate lawsuits.
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May 19, 2026
Federal prosecutors moved to dismiss a superseding indictment charging former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles managers with deceiving regulators about the emissions controls and fuel efficiency for more than 100,000 cars sold in the U.S., according to a brief filed Tuesday in Michigan federal court.
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May 19, 2026
An AIG unit needn't cover $2.5 million in defense costs from pollution suits against investors in an oil refinery and storage terminal in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a Delaware state court ruled, saying the insurer is not responsible for defense costs that predate notice of a claim.
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May 19, 2026
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday tossed solar development companies' claims that a regional transmission organization's flawed methodology led to an assignment of $311 million in grid upgrade costs to facilitate their grid connection requests, finding the developers lack standing.
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May 19, 2026
SunZia Transmission LLC and the U.S. Department of the Interior are asking an Arizona district court to dismiss a challenge to the construction of a 520-mile power line route through the San Pedro Valley, saying the "late-breaking" litigation is one of the greatest threats to completing needed energy infrastructure.
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May 19, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit has revived a suit alleging Alabama Power Co.'s plan to cap a 21-million-ton coal ash dump violates federal regulations, ruling that the environmental group suing the company clearly had standing and that its suit "should not have been dismissed."
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May 19, 2026
Chief District Judge Richard Seeborg is expected to conclude his time as the top judge for the Northern District of California in July, according to a spokesperson for the judiciary, to be succeeded by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
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May 19, 2026
The Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians says Wisconsin is misinterpreting tribal regulatory authority in its bid to block the tribe from barring nonmember fishing in 19 lakes within its reservation, telling a federal district court that the state can't prove key elements of its claims.
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May 18, 2026
A North Carolina plaintiffs firm facing a proposed class action over unwanted robocalls related to Camp Lejeune water contamination litigation is now suing its marketing company, telling a Charlotte federal court the company should cover any potential damages and legal fees.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday officially unveiled plans to roll back limits for certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, aka forever chemicals, in drinking water systems and to delay compliance requirements, a move environmentalists said "needlessly" exposes Americans to dangerous chemicals and could be illegal.
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May 18, 2026
California's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection granted safety regulation waivers without proper review, allowing Sable Offshore Corp. to restart operations of a Santa Barbara oil pipeline system a decade after a catastrophic oil spill, environmental and Native American organizations said in a suit removed to federal court.
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May 18, 2026
Recent federal criminal charges over Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster have created new risks for operators of the cargo ship at the center of the wreck, potentially upending a civil trial that's set to start next month to determine the scope of damages for victims' families and other injured claimants.
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May 18, 2026
Residents of Flint, Michigan, and the federal government have offered sharply different accounts of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's role in the city's water crisis in hundreds of pages of proposed findings submitted after a bellwether bench trial that lasted more than a month and ended in March.
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May 18, 2026
Volvo Group North America has agreed to pay roughly $197 million to resolve allegations the automaker violated California's emissions and certification standards, according to an announcement made Monday by the California Air Resources Board.
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May 18, 2026
Any artificial intelligence prompts that an environmental advocacy group's expert witness used to craft her report in a Clean Water Act case are discoverable as part of her methodology, a Connecticut federal judge ruled in ordering additional disclosure efforts.
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May 18, 2026
The Trump administration has rejected Hawaii's plan to comply with national emission standards to limit regional haze, repeating a novel argument that the closure of a fossil fuel-fired power plant as part of the plan appears to be unconstitutional.
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May 18, 2026
The state of California's claim that Exxon Mobil Corp. is responsible for plastic pollution belongs in federal court, the petroleum giant told a Ninth Circuit panel during a hearing on Monday, arguing that federal courts have admiralty jurisdiction because the litigation targets pollution in navigable waters, among other alleged injuries.
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May 18, 2026
The Michigan Department of Attorney General announced Monday that it secured a settlement worth at least $108 million — and potentially as much as $240 million — with Monsanto Co. and affiliated entities over environmental contamination from toxic polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, across the state.
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May 18, 2026
The owner of a Kansas-based senior living community said its claims that its insurer failed to pay over $7 million in damages it suffered when a sprinkler burst must stay in Colorado, according to a pair of briefs filed in Colorado federal court Friday.
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May 18, 2026
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright on Monday extended into a second year the life of a Michigan coal-fired power plant slated for closure, just days after the D.C. Circuit considered whether such moves are a lawful use of Wright's emergency authority.
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May 18, 2026
NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy said Monday they will merge in an all-stock transaction that combines two of the largest regulated U.S. utilities, in a roughly $67 billion deal steered by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and McGuireWoods LLP.
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May 15, 2026
After a contentious passage in the House, the Farm Bill may face a similarly thorny path in the Senate. Here, Law360 previews the key issues environmental attorneys are watching in the proposed legislation.