Deadly Texas Storm Leaves 800,000 Customers Without Power
At least four people were killed and around 800,000 customers in Texas — about 6% of the total — were without power after an intense rainstorm swept through the Houston area.
Coal leasing would be blocked on federal land in eastern Montana and northeastern Wyoming under two final environmental reviews published by the Interior Department Thursday.
Oil and gas industry groups challenged the Bureau of Land Management’s latest rule on mineral leasing, calling it “a sea change.”
House Republicans assailed the White House’s new environmental permitting rule during a Thursday hearing, at times indicating how the standard might be challenged in court.
Tougher EPA rules governing carcinogenic air emissions from chemical manufacturing facilities drew a petition for review Thursday.
Corporations are increasingly turning to tax lawyers to help manage intercompany pricing transactions involving the buying and selling of carbon credits.
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.
At least four people were killed and around 800,000 customers in Texas — about 6% of the total — were without power after an intense rainstorm swept through the Houston area.
A Berlin court has ordered the German government to overhaul its 2023 climate program to meet sector-specific targets for 2030.
Top lawyers for big US airlines earned almost $50 million combined last year, showing the heavily-regulated carriers value legal help inside their companies.
Corporations are increasingly turning to tax lawyers to help manage intercompany pricing transactions involving the buying and selling of carbon credits.
The largest geomagnetic storm since 2003 that occurred last Friday may be just the beginning of a more intense than expected period of solar activity. The storms are continuing to cause widespread radio <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://news/stories/SDBZQRT1UM0W","_id":"0000018f-85d9-de3b-adcf-dffbb6030000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">blackouts-bsp-bb-link> and distortions to normal energy patterns across the Americas.
The Biden administration is initiating a suite of policies it says will help foster a deeper domestic supply chain for solar panels, following pleas from US manufacturers confronting a surge of tariff-free imports.
Chevron Corp.’s $53 billion deal to buy Hess Corp. received a nod of support from a major proxy advisory firm that said shareholders should vote in favor of it.
The US Army Corps of Engineers allegedly violated federal law when it approved an ecological project without updating decades-old impact research, threatening a Louisiana swamp’s future, a new lawsuit says.
Tougher EPA rules governing carcinogenic air emissions from chemical manufacturing facilities drew a petition for review Thursday.
Legislation to make large polluters pay for the damage caused by climate change in California advanced from a key state committee on Thursday.
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The cryptocurrency industry’s growing presence in Washington shows signs of maturing after a tumultuous start as a network of associations and company lobbyists, plus a recent super PAC, make it look more like a traditional Washington influence operation, one that is working to rebound after the downfall of political donor-turned-fraudster Samuel Bankman-Fried, a founder of FTX who was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Top lawyers for big US airlines earned almost $50 million combined last year, showing the heavily-regulated carriers value legal help inside their companies.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is clear to ramp up enforcement and defend several major regulations in litigation after the US Supreme Court decision that its spending structure is constitutional.
A New York judge likely will soon have to tackle some of the thorniest questions for regulators trying to police the cryptocurrency market.
President Joe Biden is set to sign into law a years-long FAA reauthorization, which notably doesn’t include a two-year increase to the mandatory retirement age for commercial pilots.
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