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May 04, 2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has urged a California federal court to block a Trump administration order that invoked emergency powers under the Defense Production Act to restart a Santa Barbara oil pipeline on the state's coast.
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May 04, 2026
The U.S. Forest Service is fighting three Indigenous rights and conservation nonprofits' bid to undo its streamlined approval of exploratory drilling within Black Hills National Forest that they say will harm a sacred worship site, arguing to a South Dakota federal court that the groups' allegations are just speculation.
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May 04, 2026
Conservation groups told a D.C. federal court Monday that the federal government failed to respond to a petition to revise a whale species' critical habitat designation under the Endangered Species Act, noting more than a year has elapsed.
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May 04, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court on Monday approved a $55.3 million settlement resolving derivative claims that Noble Environmental Inc.'s founders diverted a multibillion-dollar renewable energy opportunity to themselves through Archaea Energy, which BP later bought for $4.1 billion.
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May 04, 2026
A Wisconsin federal judge has temporarily blocked the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians from stopping nonmembers from fishing for walleye and musky in 19 lakes within its reservation, after the state challenged the Indigenous nation's use of its hunting and fishing laws to cite anglers.
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May 04, 2026
Global oil giants and an industry group have said Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has no basis to allege they conspired to restrict renewable energy and delay the transition away from fossil fuels in violation of federal antitrust laws.
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May 01, 2026
Nine Sioux Nations are asking a South Dakota federal court to block the approval of exploratory drilling in the Black Hills National Forest, saying the federal government didn't consider the potential effects the project will have on a sacred Indigenous worship site that contains hundreds of cultural properties.
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May 01, 2026
The First Circuit allowed New Hampshire to continue the repeal of its motor vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance program after a federal district judge preliminarily blocked the state from doing so, finding the state will likely prevail on appeal.
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May 01, 2026
A group of Lowell, Massachusetts residents has accused the state's Department of Environmental Protection of wrongfully approving "a flawed air quality plan" for the expansion of a 14-acre, 352,000-square-foot data center that's allegedly been polluting their community.
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May 01, 2026
North Carolina lawmakers are several weeks into their 2026 "short session," and already they are taking big, multi-bill swings at data centers, public-facing energy costs and artificial intelligence. They also seek to make entertainment ticket pricing more transparent and raise the state's minimum wage for the first time in nearly two decades.
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May 01, 2026
The widow of a former gas station and industrial worker on Friday dropped her suit alleging ExxonMobil Corp.'s benzene-containing products caused her late husband's fatal cancer, according to a joint motion.
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May 01, 2026
For most lawyers, getting to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court is a once-in-a-lifetime event, but for a select few, it's a common occurrence. Clement & Murphy PLLC name partner Paul Clement is one of those lawyers.
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May 01, 2026
The Muscogee Creek Nation is asking a federal district court to reject motions to dismiss its challenge over an excavated sacred burial site in Alabama, arguing that its sister tribe's claims of immunity in the long-running dispute fail under state and federal law.
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May 01, 2026
The past week in London has seen a Swiss energy trader bring a Financial List claim against shipping benchmarking company Baltic Exchange, law firm Slater and Gordon sued by a former client, Slack and Salesforce hit Microsoft with an antitrust claim, and Stephen Fry bring a personal injury claim after he broke bones falling off a stage. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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April 30, 2026
A New York federal judge has granted final approval to a $27 million deal between DuPont and the Hoosick Falls residents who claimed the company's chemicals contaminated their drinking water for years, damaging their property values and leaving toxic levels of "forever chemicals" in their blood.
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April 30, 2026
Verizon is fighting back after a North Carolina federal judge declared that the lease for land a cell tower was constructed on is invalid, laying down a set of counterclaims accusing the landowner of using it to build up the site before canceling the lease.
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April 30, 2026
A Washington state judge refused on Wednesday to dismiss two Native American tribes' lawsuits accusing ExxonMobil, Chevron and other major oil companies of concealing climate change risks related to fossil fuels, rejecting the companies' arguments that federal law blocks the tribes' claims.
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April 30, 2026
A closely watched separation-of-powers test is playing out in Massachusetts, where the Bay State auditor will argue to the state's top court in a hearing next week that the attorney general is stonewalling her from conducting a voter-approved audit of the state legislature.
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April 30, 2026
A Virginia federal judge has approved Northrop Grumman's voluntary dismissal of its breach of contract lawsuit against Maryland-based subcontractor Element U.S. Space & Defense, which Northrop had accused of wrecking a $5 million solar satellite array and refusing to reimburse resulting damages.
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April 30, 2026
A California state appeals court has affirmed a defense verdict for Monsanto in a Roundup cancer lawsuit, saying the trial court did not allow improper regulatory evidence concerning the herbicide.
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April 30, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge dismissed a challenge from a group of residents to an offshore wind development, finding state laws regulating construction noise and operation don't apply to the work authorized by Congress.
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April 30, 2026
The Center for Biological Diversity told the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday that there are still remedies to pursue if the appeals court revives its challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's approval of a road that contains radioactive phosphogypsum that has already been completed.
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April 30, 2026
A Pennsylvania university that was charged by a borough for stormwater management services doesn't owe the amount assessed because the charges constitute a tax that the university is exempt from paying, the state's Supreme Court affirmed Thursday.
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April 30, 2026
Al Jazeera urged a California federal judge Thursday to permanently nix a claim alleging it knowingly, with intent to conceal infringement, embedded its watermark over videographers' extreme weather footage uploaded onto YouTube, arguing it never removed the videographers' copyright management information and that the parties' works are not identical.
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April 30, 2026
Global export restrictions on critical raw materials that are key for digital and renewable energy technologies increased fivefold between 2009 and 2024, which could lead to greater risks of supply chain vulnerabilities, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said.