California’s Sable Pipeline Suit Tests ‘Energy Emergency’ Reach

California’s legal challenge to the Trump administration’s restart of Sable Offshore Corp.'s pipeline opens a new front in a battle over whether federal agencies can override traditional state powers under broad executive order directives.

Anti-Abortion Effort Pushes States for Wastewater Restrictions

State battles over reproductive rights are turning toward environmental law as legislatures and advocates grapple over whether abortions pose a threat to community water supplies.

US Wind’s Claims Against Interior Tossed in Lawsuit Over Project

US Wind is premature in its attempt to save its Maryland offshore wind project, despite the company’s claims that the project is at risk under the Trump administration, a Maryland federal judge ruled.

Judge Rejects Novel Climate Case Against North Carolina Utility

A first-of-its-kind climate lawsuit specifically challenging an energy utility was dismissed by a state judge in North Carolina, who called the claims against Duke Energy “clearly nonjusticiable.”

Endangerment Finding’s Repeal Divides Blue, Red States Again

The Trump administration’s repeal of the endangerment finding is again pitting blue and red states against one another, with those led by Democrats poised to sue and some conservative states applauding the finding’s demise.

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One of Big Oil’s Big Defenses Is Getting Blown Up: Mark Gongloff

For decades, fossil-fuel companies and their climate-change-denying allies obsessively tried to kill the federal government’s right to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. Like Ahab, they may find that finally harpooning their white whale risks taking them down with it.

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Tom Goldstein’s Vigorous Defense Gives the Jury a Lot to Chew On

Prosecutors trying the government’s case against high-profile US Supreme Court litigator Tom Goldstein are asking jurors to draw lots of inferences from circumstantial evidence to find him guilty of intentionally dodging his taxes. The defense has given them lots of reasons to at least hesitate before making the leap.

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