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April 27, 2026
An insurer told a Florida federal court it owes no coverage to a drilling subcontractor or a telecommunications construction company in a $7.5 million suit over the discharge of millions of gallons of raw sewage, saying the coverage is barred by the policies' absolute pollution exclusion.
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April 24, 2026
A Florida federal judge Friday warned that he will not allow any new or revised demonstratives for a trial beginning Monday in a suit by children who blame their birth defects on Lockheed Martin's chemical handling practices at an Orlando facility, putting an end to the parties' last-minute feud.
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April 24, 2026
A coalition of 10 states and three local governments sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday, claiming the agency has failed to implement a Clean Air Act rule regulating soot and is thereby endangering public health across the country.
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April 24, 2026
A coalition of five environmental groups agreed to drop its challenge to the 2021 reissuance of a federal permit that authorizes truncated environmental reviews for oil and gas companies, with plans to sue anew over the permit's 2026 iteration.
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April 24, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its oral argument portion of the 2025 October term by hearing a panoply of disputes over the constitutionality of geofence warrants, the existence of aiding and abetting torture claims, and the rescission of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
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April 24, 2026
The high court's recent decision letting Chevron move a state court lawsuit to federal court has raised questions about the newly expanded scope of a statute permitting such transfers, when allegations are tied to work for the federal government.
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April 24, 2026
With a $7.25 billion deal potentially at stake, Monsanto heads to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in its closely watched appeal of a $1.25 million jury verdict awarded to a Missouri man who claimed that Roundup weed killer caused his cancer.
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April 24, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission is pushing back against bids from Syngenta Corp. and Corteva Inc. in North Carolina federal court to escape allegations of using loyalty rebate schemes to block competition from rival generic pesticides.
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April 24, 2026
The Trump administration has said that a federal committee's recent exemption of oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico from Endangered Species Act requirements moots a lawsuit challenging federal evaluations of offshore drilling's effects on endangered species.
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April 24, 2026
Conservation groups looking to block an Interior Department order regarding the removal of signs containing information about slavery, Indigenous nations and climate change from national park sites say the directive has caused them to divert resources and pressured their members to self-censor or defy best practices for historical interpretations.
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April 24, 2026
A coalition of Colorado federal lawmakers introduced legislation this week that will prioritize drinking water projects for tribal communities in the Upper Colorado River Basin by increasing funding for programs by $10 million annually.
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April 24, 2026
Federal officials are urging a New Jersey federal judge to reject a bid from the state and one of its municipalities to block work on a planned immigration detention center, arguing the plaintiffs lacked standing and relied on "highly speculative and unrealistic" environmental and infrastructure harms.
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April 24, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Interior and the Nebraska Public Power District have told a federal judge that conservation groups and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe cannot justify their bid to block construction of a 226-mile, 345-kilovolt electricity transmission line in central Nebraska.
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April 24, 2026
Shares of X-Energy, a developer of nuclear reactors and fuel technology, began trading Friday after the company raised $1 billion in an upsized initial public offering advised by Latham & Watkins LLP and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.
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April 23, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday revived a California county's suit seeking coverage of up to $162 million for environmental remediation efforts at an airport, reversing a lower court ruling that the policies were capped by an annual limit.
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April 23, 2026
The Trump administration's antipathy toward renewable energy is hitting a courtroom wall as federal judges repeatedly block policies aimed at stymieing wind and solar projects and ding agencies for not adequately justifying their actions.
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April 23, 2026
Cathay Bank sued Macquarie's asset management arm and the former executives of recycling company DTG Enterprises in Washington federal court Wednesday, claiming they tricked lenders into backing a $540 million buyout by misrepresenting DTG's financial viability and concealing a plan to acquire its largest competitor for $100 million.
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April 23, 2026
An Apache nonprofit amended its challenge to the federal government and Resolution Copper Co. over the exchange of nearly 2,500 acres within Arizona's Tonto National Forest, arguing the land transfer, which contains a sacred Indigenous worship site, was rushed in violation of religious freedom and constitutional laws.
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April 23, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge ordered BJ's Wholesale Club to include at its June annual meeting a request to poll shareholders on whether it should conduct a climate study, in what appears to be the first such ruling since the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced last fall it would no longer review most rejected proxy ballot questions.
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April 23, 2026
Florida's attorney general has subpoenaed several major corporations, including Unilever, Coca-Cola, Target, Nestle and Mondelez International, and a number of environmental groups as part of an investigation into whether their involvement in organizations aiming to reduce plastic waste might run afoul of antitrust and consumer protection laws.
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April 23, 2026
A California federal judge has declined to issue a preliminary injunction at the behest of a competitor to block the launch of an app that gives out information about wildfires, saying this competitor had not adequately explained the delay between when it learned of the planned app's launch and when it filed suit.
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April 23, 2026
The Ninth Circuit's rejection of a global agribusiness' efforts to reverse the invalidation of an Idaho federal land transfer drew the ire of seven Republican-appointed judges, who said in a dissent that the majority is blocking the government's administration of the property that was once owned by an Indigenous nation.
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April 22, 2026
Monsanto and a proposed class that entered into a $7.25B settlement resolving claims linking Roundup to non-Hodgkin lymphoma have urged a California federal court overseeing multidistrict litigation to reject two law firms' "baseless smear campaign" and "attack" on the pending deal, saying the deal falls outside the court's jurisdiction.
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April 22, 2026
W.L. Gore urged a Delaware federal judge Wednesday to toss a proposed class action claiming the company touts Gore-Tex as environmentally sound while hiding that "harmful" per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances are used to make the fabric, saying the consumers "lack any basis" to claim their garments contain the chemicals.
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April 22, 2026
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP and four other firms have urged a Montana federal judge to appoint them as co-lead class counsel in PFAS firefighter gear litigation by cities and municipalities against 3M, Dupont and others, arguing they were the first to file suit, which inspired multiple "copycat" actions.