Pennsylvania Utility Agency Stands by Transmission Line Denial
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission defended its denial of an application to site high voltage transmission lines, asking for the decision to be reinstated.
The future of a remote Alaska copper and cobalt trove will turn in part on whether the spirit or the letter of a 1980 federal national parks law matters most in the Interior’s Department’s ability to block access to the potential mines.
In the fight to ratchet down climate emissions and soothe the most dangerous effects of an overheating planet, one of the most withering setbacks in recent memory wasn’t delivered by the oil industry or coal excavators, but, rather, a group of restaurants in California.
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A jury in Philadelphia found
Plastic-waste derived chemicals the EPA has allowed Chevron to make at a Mississippi refinery pose too great a cancer risk to people living nearby, residents’ attorneys told a federal court Friday.
In Nevada, can a balance be struck between an endangered toad species and the pressing need to address climate change? The future of NEPA, a 54-year-old environmental law, may hold the answer.
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission defended its denial of an application to site high voltage transmission lines, asking for the decision to be reinstated.
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HBK Capital Management, one of the biggest shareholders in Hess Corp., is planning to abstain from voting on the oil company’s $53 billion takeover by Chevron Corp.
US regulators finalized rules designed to speed up building the power grid of the future, approving the biggest reforms in at least a decade to enable the energy transition, meet soaring demand and offer protection from extreme weather.
A school bus company lost its bid to dismiss an environmental lawsuit accusing it of violating Connecticut’s regulation against excessive idling, when a federal court said it had subject matter jurisdiction over the case.
Applications for the 2024 program year of the Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Program for green energy tax credits under Section 48(e) will open at 9 a.m. May 28, the Treasury Department and IRS announced.
Energy companies added to the so-called fracklog for a second straight month in the latest signal of slowing growth in US shale oil output. Shale explorers drilled more crude wells than they fracked in April, marking the first back-to-back increase in drilled-but-uncompleted projects since late 2022, according to a report from the US Energy Information Administration on Monday.
A legislative overhaul on federal permitting isn’t likely this year, Senate Majority Leader
Two companies have asked a federal appeals court to challenge the EPA’s methylene chloride rule, in what may be the first of more legal challenges.
Dechert meetings with the FBI have opened a new path for a Missouri aviation executive to attack the law firm for allegedly taking part in a hacking scheme against him.
Rebecca Matthews has joined Frost Brown Todd as partner in its bankruptcy and restructuring practice group in Dallas, the firm said Monday.
Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks basketball team minority owner who co-founded Cost Plus Drugs, said large employers that pay their own health-care claims should make their health insurance and pharmaceutical contracts publicly available.
Jeff Morton has joined Haynes and Boone LLP as a partner in the firm’s intellectual property practice group in Orange County, Calif., according to an announcement Monday.
The Treasury Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed new rules that aim to keep investment funds from being used to launder money or fund terrorist activity.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison welcomed Kirkland & Ellis M&A partner Chelsea Darnell to its corporate team in New York City, the firm announced Monday.
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