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The city of Baltimore’s effort to force 23 energy companies compensate it for the costs of climate change through litigation hit a roadblock in May when the U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn a lower court's decision to remand the city’s lawsuit to state court.

The Gulf offshore oil and natural gas industry is an economic engine for our nation contributing $5 billion to 8 billion per year to the federal treasury. In fact, Gulf oil and gas revenues fund 60 percent of total federal energy revenue.

Attorneys General representing 14 states sued the Biden administration over its decision to pause the issuance of new leases for oil and gas production on federal lands and waters.

U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan, of the U.S. Court for the District of Arizona, denied a request to by members of Native American tribes in Arizona to block a land swap between the U.S. Forest Service and Resolution Copper, a mining company.

A three judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a district judge erred in enjoining the federal government from enforcing the Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR) within Colorado.

Research indicates, President Joe Biden’s executive order placing a halt on new natural gas and oil leases on public lands is likely to compromise the funding of public schools in eight Western states.

A group of Republican governors sent a letter to President Joe Biden February 22, asking him to rescind an executive order he issued halting new leases for oil and gas development on federal land.

President-elect Joe Biden issued a campaign promise to halt new oil and gas leases on federal lands. Such a ban, if actually imposed by a Biden administration, would cost eight Western states an estimated $8.1 billion in tax revenue and $34.1 billion in investment in just the first five years of its existence.

By Christopher Casey Regardless of which candidate secures the presidency in the days to come, the administration will have to cope with unprecedented federal debt....

The Federal court for the Eastern District of California, based in Sacramento, has temporarily blocked a California law that would ban the sale of alligator products in the state.