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February 19, 2026
President Donald Trump issued an executive order late Wednesday aimed at ramping up the production of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup that has been accused of causing cancer in scores of lawsuits, including one on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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February 18, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission's chief said Wednesday that people wrongly enrolled in Lifeline as identified by the FCC inspector general have been removed from the telecom subsidy program, amid the FCC floating reforms to tamp down fraud.
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February 18, 2026
The California federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation claiming social media harms kids' mental health denied bids by Meta, TikTok, Google and SnapChat to block six experts' testimony on the alleged disruption and costs to school districts from a June bellwether trial over a Kentucky school district's claims.
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February 18, 2026
A federal court judge has denied four Oklahoma tribes' bid for a declaration that lands within the historic boundaries of their reservations maintain their Indian Country status, saying there's no evidence of a live controversy between the Indigenous nations and Sooner State prosecutors.
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February 18, 2026
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has advised Denver-based oil and gas producer Ovintiv on a $3 billion sale of its assets in the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma to an undisclosed buyer.
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February 18, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Interior is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a petition by the Chinook Indian Nation that looks to undo a Ninth Circuit order that denied it federal recognition, arguing that the case is a poor vehicle for resolving questions under the 1994 List Act.
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February 17, 2026
A special prosecutor for Oklahoma's governor and the state's wildlife conservation director have asked a federal court judge to throw out the Muscogee Creek Nation's hunting rights lawsuit, saying the tribe has gone along with state hunting regulations for more than a century.
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February 17, 2026
Lifeline providers in states that were allowed to opt out of the federal verification process might soon find themselves in the hot seat, as the Federal Communications Commission revealed Tuesday it has launched investigations into certain providers from three states.
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February 17, 2026
Two months after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's cancellation of a federal disaster mitigation program was illegal, the government has not shown any signs of restoring it, a coalition of states said Tuesday.
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February 17, 2026
The Navajo Nation's tribal council members are throwing their support behind a New Mexico bill that will allow for Native American designations on state-issued driver's licenses and identification cards.
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February 17, 2026
A coalition of educational, scientific and parks-related nonprofits filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Massachusetts federal court challenging the Trump administration's efforts to remove signage from national parks that discusses slavery, Native American history and climate change.
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February 17, 2026
A South Dakota hotel and its owner are pressuring defense counsel provided by an insurance carrier in an underlying racial discrimination lawsuit to submit filings relying on artificial intelligence that could potentially violate legal ethics rules, the insurer alleged in Nebraska federal court Tuesday.
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February 17, 2026
A Wisconsin tribe is fighting a request by Enbridge Energy Inc. to stay a June 16 deadline to shut down a portion of its Line 5 pipeline on reservation lands pending a Seventh Circuit decision, telling a federal district court that the Canadian company's motion is "jurisdictionally infirm."
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February 13, 2026
The U.S. government is opposing the Sierra Club's attempt to enforce a settlement pact concerning borderlands barriers as they fight over the first Trump administration's diversion of federal funds for border wall construction versus environmentalists' claims that the wall impedes wildlife passage.
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February 13, 2026
The Eighth Circuit has rejected a Minnesota Native American man's petition for an en banc rehearing in a jurisdictional dispute over a tribal court divorce order, potentially setting the case up to be heard at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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February 13, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Interior and other federal government parties have urged a D.C. federal court to grant them a quick win in a suit over the approval of a California tribe's 221-acre real estate development project, which includes a casino.
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February 13, 2026
A Native American casino and a UNITE HERE local are on track to settle a dispute over whether a 2025 strike violated two tribal ordinances, their attorneys told a California federal judge, asking him to keep the litigation paused for another two weeks while they finalize the deal.
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February 13, 2026
A bill that would direct agencies to take a closer look at the administrative barriers that stand in the way of broadband deployment has sailed through the House Committee on Natural Resources and now heads to the full House for consideration.
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February 13, 2026
An Alabama tribe, the Interior Department and Auburn University are asking a federal district court to dismiss an ongoing challenge by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation over a sacred burial site, arguing a lack of standing and sovereign immunity.
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February 13, 2026
The Cayuga Nation is urging a New York federal court to reject a motion by cannabis shop owners for attorney fees in a racketeering suit it brought, saying the owners didn't prevail on those claims.
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February 12, 2026
The Trump administration's removal of the link between greenhouse gases and public health takes aim at the U.S. Supreme Court's 2007 landmark determination that GHGs are air pollutants, and will spark a prolonged battle with consequent uncertainty for industries.
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February 12, 2026
The Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California said it has purchased more than 10,000 acres of its ancestral lands in the Sierra Nevada, made possible by a $5.5 million grant from the California Wildlife Conservation Board and marking the third-largest land return in the state's history.
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February 12, 2026
A federal judge has determined that a Utah Indigenous nation's former energy manager has yet to exhaust all tribal court remedies in a 12-year-long breach of contract dispute, saying time and the case's increased complexity can't resurrect his challenge.
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February 12, 2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday finalized the repeal of an Obama-era finding that greenhouse gases endanger people's health, and clawed back the vehicle emissions standards that relied upon that finding.
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February 11, 2026
A California federal judge presiding over social media addiction multidistrict litigation Wednesday criticized Meta's bid to push newly filed arbitration demands into court, saying she doesn't have jurisdiction over those claims and noting "big companies" are always insisting on arbitration, but "when they don't like the fact that they're arbitrating, they complain about it."