Utah has enacted a first-in-the-nation law protecting companies from being held liable from damages related to greenhouse gas emissions, a move that comes just a few months after a legal challenge was brought against the state’s fossil fuel industry over the issue.

Baltimore, Annapolis, and Anne Arundel County in Maryland lost their effort Tuesday to convince the state Supreme Court to revive their lawsuits seeking to recover damagesover climate change from oil and gas companies.

A jury found that Meta Platforms Inc. misled New Mexico teenagers about the safety of its social networks, even when it knew platforms like Facebook and Instagram had become breeding grounds for sexual predators.

California officials disclosed the names of more than 500 data brokers registered in the state and the personal information they sold to foreign adversaries, the Trump administration, and generative artificial intelligence firms, among other buyers.

Advocates, fishermen, and tribal groups on Tuesday urged a court to reject the Interior Department’s approval of the Sunrise Wind project offshore of New York.

The Trump administration could withhold billions in funding for food stamps and school lunches unless states certify they comply with “vague, extraneous, and unreasoned” ideological conditions, a coalition of 20 states and the District of Columbia said in a suit filed yesterday against USDA.

A cargo of jet fuel from the US Gulf Coast is potentially heading to Alaska or Hawaii, a rare move that underscores how the war on Iran is upending energy supplies across the world.

The Trump administration wants to lower or eliminate some education requirements for federal roles and promotions, Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told lawmakers.

The Pentagon wants to shift roughly $1.5 billion in previously approved funding to buy critical missile interceptors from Lockheed Martin Corp. and RTX Corp., according to the acting comptroller — weapons that are in short supply as the war in Iran consumes vast amounts of the munitions.

Abacus Technology Corp.'s challenge to the US government’s plan to move IT services work the company performs to General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. is dismissed because Abacus received a contract extension, the US Court of Federal Claims said.

In November 2020, Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller announced that his city had entered into a “game-changing partnership” with a little-known aerospace startup called Theia Group Inc. Theia, based in Washington, DC, was planning to build a multibillion-dollar, 80-acre facility in Albuquerque to manufacture observation satellites it would then deploy and manage. The startup envisioned total extraterrestrial surveillance—a sprawling constellation of satellites capturing detailed shots of the entire Earth at a half-meter resolution on a near-continuous basis. Plenty of companies already sold satellite imaging services, but this promise of functionally real-time digital images set Theia apart. A promotional video made this promise: “Every tree on Earth: digital. Every truck: digital. Every whale: digital.”

India has activated emergency rules to fast-track the deployment of natural gas pipelines, as escalating tensions in the Middle East deepen shortages of liquefied petroleum gas, the nation’s preferred cooking fuel.

Senate Republicans aim to break a stalemate on re-opening the Department of Homeland Security by forcing Democrats to vote on a plan that excludes funding for immigration enforcement operations but also doesn’t have the slate of policy changes they’ve demanded.

A wave of Democratic successes in elections during Donald Trump’s second term has crashed into the president’s backyard, the latest warning sign for Republicans that their thin congressional majorities are in peril.

A Trump administration rule requiring wind and solar energy projects to start physical construction by July 5 to qualify for clean energy tax credits would be repealed using the Congressional Review Act under S. J. Res. 107.

Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google were found liable and must pay damages to a 20-year-old woman who alleged that her addiction to the companies’ social media platforms caused her to suffer a mental health crisis, a jury said.

President Donald Trump publicly pushed for an 18-month extension of a controversial spy powers law Wednesday, citing the ongoing military operations in Iran and giving GOP leaders support as they try to win over privacy hawks to pass it before the April 20 deadline.

On Capitol Hill, lawmakers hurled accusations about who’s at fault for the Department of Homeland Security shutdown that’s left nearly 58,000 Transportation Security Administration officers unpaid and caused hours-long waits at airports.