/environmental?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Environmental Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:04:49 +0000 /environmental/articles/2318279?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2318279 The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in five cases this week, including disputes over the constitutionality of a task force that sets preventative healthcare coverage requirements, a school district's introduction of LGBTQ-themed storybooks and whether parties can establish standing based on harms affecting third parties.  Fri, 18 Apr 2025 21:19:23 +0000 /environmental/articles/2327521?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2327521 Environmental groups have asked the Tenth Circuit to preserve a lower court's order halting construction on a Denver dam, saying a stay requested by the city was filed prematurely. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:53:54 +0000 /environmental/articles/2327585?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2327585 An Apache nonprofit behind the effort to save an ancient worship site from destruction in Arizona is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to quickly rule on its petition after the federal government announced it is moving forward with plans to transfer the site to Resolution Copper for mining. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:32:22 +0000 /environmental/articles/2322851?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2322851 The North Carolina Supreme Court's April lineup will find the justices delving into a squabble over backyard chickens in a residential neighborhood and a consumer fraud class action with Home Depot in the crosshairs. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:47:18 +0000 /environmental/articles/2326388?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2326388 Multinational corporations have increasingly found themselves between a rock and a hard place attempting to comply with EU and California ESG requirements while not running afoul of expanding U.S. anti-ESG regimes, but focusing on what is material to shareholder value and establishing strong governance can help, say attorneys at MoFo. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:01:41 +0000 /environmental/articles/2327364?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2327364 The Illinois Supreme Court will consider whether pollution exclusions in standard-form commercial general liability policies apply to industrial emissions allowed under a regulatory permit, the court said Thursday, agreeing to take up a question certified by the Seventh Circuit. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:34:09 +0000 /environmental/articles/2325931?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2325931 Todd Itami at Covington offers a bright-eyed, laughing-all-the-way, skydive look at what the legal industry could look like after an artificial intelligence revolution, which he believes may happen much sooner and more dramatically than we expect. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:00:19 +0000 /environmental/articles/2327422?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2327422 The U.S. Department of the Interior on Friday said it's "unlocking the full potential" of offshore oil and gas lease sales on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, a rebuke to the Biden administration's conservative approach to development. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:33:31 +0000 /environmental/articles/2327478?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2327478 In this week's Taxation With Representation, Global Payments Inc. buys Worldpay from GTCR and FIS, Intel Corp. sells a stake in its Altera business to Silver Lake, KKR acquires OSTTRA from S&P Global and CME Group, and Canada's Capital Power Corp. nabs two U.S. natural gas power plants. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 13:30:15 +0000 /environmental/articles/2325879?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2325879 The newly formed Texas Stock Exchange LLC is proposing rules that largely resemble those of the New York heavyweights it seeks to challenge, along with some notable differences, leaving questions on how the exchange will distinguish itself. Here are five takeaways from TXSE's securities filing. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 13:13:47 +0000 /environmental/articles/2327354?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2327354 Chemical shipper OxyVinyls Inc. and Norfolk Southern struck a deal toward the end of a trial seeking to spread the blame — and the cost of a $600 million settlement — for the 2023 derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:28:11 +0000 /environmental/articles/2327073?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2327073 A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday rejected claims from local residents and community groups alleging New York's revised congestion pricing tolls wrongfully discriminated against out-of-state commuters and unfairly benefited public transit riders instead of roadway users. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:24:57 +0000 /environmental/articles/2327255?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2327255 A Georgia state jury heard Thursday that a C.R. Bard medical equipment sterilization plant carelessly emitted ethylene oxide by going years without pollution controls, and later failing to diligently use and maintain the controls it did eventually install. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:04:08 +0000 /environmental/articles/2327200?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2327200 A Ninth Circuit panel was skeptical Thursday that a Teck Resources unit could dodge the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation's claims for tribal service losses stemming from a smelter's Columbia River pollution, with one judge saying Teck's argument was "splitting hairs." Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:15:31 +0000 /environmental/articles/2327099?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2327099 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has urged the Fifth Circuit to affirm its decision to divert trillions of gallons of polluted floodwater into the Mississippi Sound, which Mississippi local governments and industry groups allege unlawfully harms bottlenose dolphins. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:12:04 +0000 /environmental/articles/2326967?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2326967 A Liberty Mutual unit said it is owed over $500,000 for defending a contractor in underlying litigation over a crane incident, telling a New York federal court that the contractor qualifies as an additional insured under a subcontractor's commercial general liability policy. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:05:34 +0000 /environmental/articles/2326853?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2326853 The D.C. Circuit has paused a federal court's order directing Citibank to start disbursing funds to nonprofits undertaking climate change projects that were appropriated by Congress to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the Biden administration. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:01:57 +0000 /environmental/articles/2326974?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2326974 Federal patent officials have officially pulled the plug on a program that sped up examination of patent applications for inventions that are intended to mitigate climate change, after suspending it earlier this year. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:59:56 +0000 /environmental/articles/2323350?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2323350 Despite continued innovation, litigation finance remains an immature market with borrowers recieving significantly different terms as lenders learn to value cases, which firms need a strong handle on to ensure lending terms do not overwhelm collateral value, says Robert Wilkins at Lightfoot Franklin. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:21:46 +0000 /environmental/articles/2326307?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /environmental/articles/2326307 Insurance regulators must strengthen their understanding of the threats posed by climate change and better consider how those risks will shape the stability of the sector, a group of international regulators said in a report.