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.
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.
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 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.
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.”
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.


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.
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.
IRS guidance on new restrictions on clean energy tax credits fails to address some of the most pressing issues tax practitioners say are creating headaches in the tax equity and tax credit transfer markets.
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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.”
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.
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.
US supplies of gasoline are being shipped out of the country to travel thousands of miles via the Bahamas before finally ending up in California, a state battling shrinking fuelmaking capacity and high pump prices.
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