/environmental?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Environmental Copyright 2025 蜜桃视频. en-US Thu, 12 Jun 2025 23:43:31 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352996?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352996 California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced Thursday that he is launching an investigation into State Farm's handling of thousands of claims from the devastating Los Angeles-area wildfires, as complaints continue to grow. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:19:04 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352984?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352984 A Missouri jury weighing a Roundup cancer case heard expert testimony Thursday that plaintiffs offered a "remarkable mischaracterization" of a defense expert witness on cancer causation when they said in openings that he was "discredited." Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:18:44 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352900?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352900 A coalition of environmental groups on Thursday challenged Georgia's utility commission's planned agreement with Georgia Power to freeze utility rates for the next three years, alleging that the "smoke and mirrors" deal hides rate increases until after the commission's first elections in years. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:44:15 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352893?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352893 A Court of Federal Claims judge on Thursday refused to dismiss the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority's claims that it is owed various fees from the Armed Forces Retirement Home, finding the Clean Water Act includes a waiver of sovereign immunity. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:47:59 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352592?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352592 State and federal litigants in a suit over a Biden-era regulation that imposed more requirements on states to address possible mining law violations聽were granted聽a breather聽Thursday after聽the Trump administration said it聽plans to loosen the mandate once again. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:17:10 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352815?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352815 The Third Circuit said Thursday that it will reconsider whether to reopen Congoleum Corp.'s 2003 Chapter 11 bankruptcy so the bankruptcy court, not a district court, can say whether Congoleum affiliate Bath Iron Works should share liability for cleaning up a polluted New Jersey river. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:57:29 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352077?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352077 An Alaska federal judge isn't revoking key permits for a proposed gold mine in the state's Yukon鈥揔uskokwim region despite finding legal flaws in an environmental review, but she has ordered government agencies to reassess the risks of a catastrophic tailings spill while construction remains paused. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:17:10 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352577?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352577 The California attorney general and 10 other states sued the Trump administration in federal court Thursday, minutes after President Donald Trump signed resolutions repealing California's Clean Air Act waiver that allowed the state to establish its own vehicle emissions standards, slamming the resolutions as unconstitutional, irrational and "wildly partisan." Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:40:30 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352703?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352703 The retail arm of global fertilizer company Nutrien Ltd. has accused a former crop consultant of swiping its trade secrets before decamping for a rival, saying in a federal lawsuit that he colluded with his new employer to hijack a branch office, its staff and its customers. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:40:06 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352581?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352581 The company administrating the payouts to plaintiffs in Norfolk Southern's $600 million settlement stemming from the fiery derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, has been replaced, because it purportedly made miscalculations that overpaid some claimants. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:13:39 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352337?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352337 Federal grant recipients whose awards have recently been rescinded by the U.S. Deparment of Energy have options for successfully challenging those terminations through litigation, say attorneys at Bracewell. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:13:39 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352266?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352266 A committee of retired city employees sued the Chapter 9 receiver overseeing the city of Chester, Pennsylvania's municipal bankruptcy, arguing that by requiring water system assets be sold to a publicly owned entity, the receiver is forgoing private bids that could generate an extra $270 million for the city's creditors.聽 Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:03:12 +0000 /environmental/articles/2350652?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2350652 Attacks on judicial independence now run the gamut from gross (bald-faced interference) to systemic (structural changes) to insidious (efforts to undermine public trust), so lawyers, judges and the public must recognize the fateful moment in which we live and defend the rule of law every day, says Jim Moliterno at Washington and Lee University. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:16:56 +0000 /environmental/articles/2347365?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2347365 To avoid the fate of numerous expert witnesses whose testimony was recently deemed inadmissible by courts, experts relying on artificial intelligence and machine learning should learn from statistical tools鈥� road to judicial acceptance, say directors at Secretariat. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:17:53 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352649?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352649 Former U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado, who served as secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior during the Obama administration and most recently as ambassador to Mexico during the Biden administration, returned this month to WilmerHale's Denver office, which he founded in 2014. Wed, 11 Jun 2025 22:37:24 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352002?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352002 A group of nonprofits and cities asked the Fourth Circuit to reconsider its decision blocking an order that restored 32 congressionally funded grants frozen by the Trump administration, arguing Tuesday that the circuit's approach "would enable the Executive Branch to evade judicial review and unconstitutional actions to go unchecked." Wed, 11 Jun 2025 21:53:05 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352323?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352323 A New Jersey federal judge on Wednesday rejected a revised attempt by an advocacy group to block a set of federal approvals allowing incidental harm to marine life during work on offshore wind projects, finding the group's president failed to show how he was harmed by the approvals. Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:38:30 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352005?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352005 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said that the nation's power sector's greenhouse gas emissions don't significantly endanger people's health, and that therefore, the Clean Air Act doesn't allow regulations aimed at reducing those releases. Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:07:18 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352133?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352133 A Chubb unit underpaid a renewable energy plant operator for losses sustained after several water flow barriers malfunctioned, the assignee of the operator told a New York federal court, saying the insurer paid less than half of the $5.6 million it owed. Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:03:26 +0000 /environmental/articles/2352134?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2352134 National monuments protected by past U.S. presidents can be abolished or made smaller by President Donald Trump, according to an opinion from the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel.