/environmental?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Environmental Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:30:56 +0000 /environmental/articles/2401726?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2401726 SpaceX and Cards Against Humanity have settled the Chicago-based game company's $15 million suit accusing SpaceX of trespassing and dumping trash and machinery on a once-pristine Texas property that Cards Against Humanity purchased to block President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 22:45:34 +0000 /environmental/articles/2401555?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2401555 Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have told a Massachusetts federal judge to hold onto their case challenging the Trump administration's use of "a single subclause" buried in a U.S. Office of Management and Budget regulation to shut off billions in federal grants.  Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:28:30 +0000 /environmental/articles/2401595?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2401595 The U.S. Treasury Department should clarify how developers can demonstrate new supplier certification compliance for some clean energy tax credits retooled by the Republican budget law, practitioners said Monday, noting uncertainty over what information could suffice under new restrictions on certain foreign suppliers. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:09:47 +0000 /environmental/articles/2401467?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2401467 Shareholders who sued Origin Materials leaders for allegedly concealing a three-year construction delay affecting a planned production facility have urged a California federal court to greenlight a nonmonetary settlement that would see the sustainable chemical manufacturer appoint a chief compliance officer, among other things. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:36:58 +0000 /environmental/articles/2401600?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2401600 U.S. Department of Justice attorneys told a Michigan federal judge on Monday that the government shutdown is "straining" resources and restricting their ability to timely produce requested information in litigation over the response to the Flint water crisis. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:51:37 +0000 /environmental/articles/2401571?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2401571 Sterigenics Inc. notched two significant wins in sprawling litigation over its alleged emissions of carcinogenic ethylene oxide at an Atlanta-area plant, as a Georgia state court judge tossed residents' specific causation claims and allegations that the plant's activities constituted a private nuisance. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:20:35 +0000 /environmental/articles/2401145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2401145 A Massachusetts federal judge has tossed a suit accusing RELX PLC of retaliating against a former employee and committing securities fraud by making business decisions that contradicted environmentally minded pledges made to investors, ruling that the employee missed the window to file a charge related to his termination. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:19:54 +0000 /environmental/articles/2401546?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2401546 Exxon, BP, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute are asking the Second Circuit for en banc review of a panel's decision to award attorney fees to New York City, which is suing them for deceptive practices around climate change. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:12:18 +0000 /environmental/articles/2401597?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2401597 A bricklayer and a refractory contractor told a Pennsylvania federal court Monday that they agreed to end a proposed class action claiming the company failed to pay workers for the time they spent shuttling to and from the construction of a petrochemical plant. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:53:09 +0000 /environmental/articles/2401677?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2401677 A group of youths filed a notice of appeal with the Ninth Circuit on Monday, seeking to overturn a Montana federal judge's dismissal of their lawsuit aimed at undoing President Donald Trump's energy-related emergency orders. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:44:42 +0000 /environmental/articles/2401374?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2401374 A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Monday refused a bid by Heritage Coal for approval of its Chapter 11 liquidation plan, siding with the unsecured creditors committee on an objection over the plan's release provisions. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:30:43 +0000 /environmental/articles/2401319?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2401319 Twenty Republican-led states and leaders of the Arizona Legislature are backing Alaska in its U.S. Supreme Court bid to undo a Ninth Circuit order that barred it from opening part of the Kuskokwim River to all fishers, telling the justices that there are detrimental consequences flowing from the appellate court's decision. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:40:20 +0000 /environmental/articles/2400527?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2400527 The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review the Fifth Circuit's decision to revive a lawsuit accusing a Louisiana local government of steering hazardous industrial facilities into Black communities. Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:05:56 +0000 /environmental/articles/2401013?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2401013 California's attorney general on Friday sued three plastic bag manufacturers in state court for allegedly selling nonrecyclable plastic bags despite claiming to meet the Golden State's recyclability standards, but said four other producers agreed to stop sales in the state as part of a settlement resolving similar allegations. Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:47:22 +0000 /environmental/articles/2400981?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2400981 Colorado landowners accusing the oil and gas company HRM Resources LLC of transferring oil and gas well rights to a now-defunct smaller company in an attempt to avoid cleanup obligations won class certification in Colorado federal court Friday. Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:19:52 +0000 /environmental/articles/2400976?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2400976 An Arkansas federal court correctly determined that a manufacturer of vacuum products breached its lease with a warehouse owner by failing to purchase insurance coverage equal to the warehouse property's "full replacement cost," the Eighth Circuit ruled Friday, though partially reversing the court's nearly $14.6 million damages award. Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:32:21 +0000 /environmental/articles/2400928?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2400928 Floridians who attend, work at or live near the College of Central Florida say that their drinking water has been contaminated with so-called forever chemicals leached from firefighting foam used on campus, according to a suit against 3M and others recently removed to federal court. Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:12:59 +0000 /environmental/articles/2400511?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2400511 A Texas appeals court found that the San Jacinto River Authority had governmental immunity when it decided to release water from its Lake Conroe reservoir during a hurricane, saying it took a good faith action even though the decision damaged some properties. Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:42:19 +0000 /environmental/articles/2400986?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2400986 An environmental advocacy group made up of Great Lakes businesses told the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday that Enbridge Energy LP and its supporters are overstating claims that shutting down a Michigan segment of one of its petroleum pipelines will threaten energy security. Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:08:15 +0000 /environmental/articles/2401012?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2401012 Democratic lawmakers are demanding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of the Interior halt any plans to reduce staff as the federal government shutdown continues into its third week.