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In today’s polarized political climate, Americans nervously anticipate U.S. Supreme Court rulings with the same fervor with which they enjoy sports, and with the...

A coalition of conservation groups and representatives of rural communities in New York lost a lawsuit against the newly created New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES).

Jurisdictional questions continue in Rhode Island’s lawsuit against oil companies over purported damages from climate change.

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a challenge to the application of wetlands permitting requirements imposed under the 1972 Clean Water Act on property near Priest Lake, Idaho, owned by Mike and Chantell Sackett.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Exxon Mobil in the case, Exxon Mobil Corp. v. City of San Francisco, asking the Texas Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision preventing the Texas-based corporation from deposing the plaintiffs in the climate lawsuit.

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.

President Joe Biden’s administration is supporting the $1 billion PennEast natural gas pipeline in its case before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Gov. Jay Inslee (D) of Washington has announced a state budget proposal including a large amount of taxpayer dollars for programs to address racism...

Covid-19 has seen democratic governments exercising coercive powers over their citizens on a scale never imagined. Their justification: Your freedom is someone else’s risk of catching a potentially fatal disease. They are attempting to use a similar justification for state coercion on environmental protection: Your carbon footprint is my climate change.

The United States Supreme Court issued a ruling allowing most oil and gas pipeline projects approved under expedited procedures by the Trump administration to proceed.