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.
The dunes sagebrush lizard, an amphibian threatened by Permian Basin oil and gas development in Texas and New Mexico, is being listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced Friday.
Boeing investors rejected three shareholder proposals Friday that asked the company to issue reports about how its lobbying activities squared with its commitments to reduce carbon emissions, adopting an emissions-reduction target and a report about gender and minority pay gaps.
CITGO Petroleum Corp. and its retirement plans must face a federal class action brought by plan participants claiming that their benefits were miscalculated.
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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.
Chemical manufacturers and distributors will have to meet new federal requirements for labeling hazards on commercial products, under a final OSHA rule released Friday.
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A line of dangerous storms and flooding rains rolled over the US Gulf Coast, killing at least four people and leaving more than 800,000 customers in Texas — about 6% of the total — without power while grounding hundreds of flights.
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.
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.
Linklaters boosted pay for newly qualified lawyers in London by 20%, matching the new standard set by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in May.
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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.
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