/environmental?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Environmental Copyright 2025 ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. en-US Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:15:02 +0000 /environmental/articles/2373397?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2373397 Attorneys for environmental infrastructure grant recipients told a D.C. federal judge Tuesday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's own emails show that a proposed class action challenging the blanket termination of a climate justice and resilience grant program can move forward despite Congress' recent recission of "unobligated" funds. Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:28:11 +0000 /environmental/articles/2373439?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2373439 A lawsuit filed by youths alleging that President Donald Trump's energy policy directives harm their future by exacerbating climate change should be dismissed because their claims can't be addressed by courts, the federal government said Monday. Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:04:59 +0000 /environmental/articles/2373582?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2373582 A San Francisco Superior Court judge found that a California city that's pursued decades-long litigation against Dow Chemical and PPG Industries over dry cleaning chemicals that allegedly contaminated city sites "committed egregious discovery violations" by destroying and concealing 1991 reports related to the chemicals leaking into the city's groundwater. Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:55:40 +0000 /environmental/articles/2370721?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2370721 As underscored by the fallout from California’s February bar exam, legal education and licensure are tethered to outdated systems, and the industry must implement several key reforms to remain relevant and responsive to 21st century legal needs, says Matthew Nehmer at The Colleges of Law. Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:32:08 +0000 /environmental/articles/2373616?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2373616 A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday temporarily barred the Trump administration from redirecting more than $4 billion in funds allocated by Congress for natural disaster mitigation efforts toward other Federal Emergency Management Agency programs. Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:12:19 +0000 /environmental/articles/2373448?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2373448 A property owner has urged a D.C. federal judge in an amicus brief to grant the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians' quick win bid in the tribe's suit accusing the federal government of wrongfully blocking the tribe's $700 million casino project in Vallejo, California. Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:12:05 +0000 /environmental/articles/2373168?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2373168 The federal government's lawsuit challenging New York's climate change Superfund law will proceed in the New York City court where it was filed, rather than in a judicial district closer to the state capitol as the state had requested, a judge said. Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:00:35 +0000 /environmental/articles/2373284?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2373284 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP-advised Duke Energy on Tuesday unveiled plans for infrastructure investor Brookfield, advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, to take an indirect minority equity stake in its electric company Duke Energy Florida in a $6 billion all-cash deal. Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:00:33 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372773?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372773 The Association of California Egg Farmers and several animal rights groups seek to join the Golden State's defense of animal welfare laws being challenged by the federal government. Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:32:07 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372800?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372800 Energy infrastructure firm Enbridge has told a federal court that Michigan's efforts to shut down a U.S.-Canada pipeline are preempted by federal law, while the state urged the court to drop or stay the case because of a parallel state court action that is teed up for U.S. Supreme Court review.  Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:38:24 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372825?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372825 A Utah tribe can't intervene to challenge a $16 million Clean Air Act consent decree between the U.S. government and Ovintiv USA Inc., a federal judge has said, arguing that it failed to show how the agreement would cause direct economic harm or sovereign injury. Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:30:26 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372592?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372592 A Tokio Marine unit, an oil and gas company and a property owner have settled a $24 million dispute over outstanding reclamation bonds guaranteeing the proper environmental remediation of oil and gas properties, according to an order dismissing the case filed in Texas federal court. Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:07:58 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372807?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372807 The American Chemistry Council told the Ninth Circuit that a California federal judge who ruled that current limits on fluoride in drinking water aren't protective enough misinterpreted the Toxic Substances Control Act and urged reversal of his decision. Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:54:29 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372805?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372805 A Florida tribe has joined green groups in hitting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and state officials with environmental claims that the immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" constructed in the Everglades violates a slew of federal statutes. Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:05:40 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372575?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372575 The Seventh Circuit will not pause the execution of a lower court order remanding Chicago's climate change lawsuit against fossil fuel companies to state court, a decision the companies have asked the circuit court to review. Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:04:09 +0000 /environmental/articles/2369169?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2369169 In recent cases addressing redactions that parties sought to apply based on the relevance of information — as opposed to considerations of privilege — courts have generally limited a party’s ability to withhold nonresponsive or irrelevant material, providing a few lessons for discovery strategy, say attorneys at Sidley. Mon, 04 Aug 2025 09:39:24 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372759?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372759 E.I. du Pont de Nemours and New Jersey have reached a more than $2 billion landmark deal to remedy long-standing "forever chemical" contamination at the company's manufacturing sites across the Garden State, including a longtime facility in Salem County. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:47:18 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372544?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372544 A Manhattan federal judge on Friday rejected a request from 16 states to block the Trump administration from cutting millions of dollars in grant funds from the National Science Foundation for scientific research and programs aimed at enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM fields and environmental justice. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:26:26 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372400?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372400 The D.C. Circuit on Friday backed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's decision to limit its review of a Texas pipeline to a 1,000-foot section near the U.S.-Mexico border, saying the agency had reasonably explained why a broader review wasn't required. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:19:03 +0000 /environmental/articles/2372482?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2372482 A Texas federal judge Friday gave Texas and other states the go-ahead to pursue claims that BlackRock Inc. and other asset managers used market muscle to decrease coal production, saying the states plausibly showed that the asset managers breached antitrust laws.