Manchin Gets Mountain Valley Pipeline Deal Into Debt Bill
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The Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday removing federal protections for vast numbers of streams and wetlands will expedite commercial and residential development across the US while mostly scrapping long-contested Clean Water Act regulations, according to environmental attorneys.
Electric transmission developers seeking individual permits from multiple federal agencies can soon hold the government accountable, all the way up to the president, for leading a single environmental review process capped at no more than two years.
US Environmental Protection Agency officials have lost sight of their environmental mission and “instead decided to moonlight as social justice warriors fixated on race,” Louisiana alleged in a federal lawsuit.
A legal battle over a federal wetlands decision expected to imperil Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp is escalating with a mining company’s motion to transfer the lawsuit from Washington, D.C., to Georgia.
Nearly 500 law firms have registered to represent Camp Lejeune clients, with another 100 pending. About 60,000 claims have been filed, but so many are coming in “it’s difficult to get an accurate count,” the Navy lawyer acknowledged.
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The US Forest Service violated the Clean Water Act when the agency’s aircraft sprayed fire-retardant chemicals without a permit, a Montana federal court ruled.
Although Supreme Court justices were unanimous in backing landowners in a big EPA case, their reasoning in the latest check on administrative authority shows there is still deep division.
The California state Senate approved a bill that would force the country’s two largest pensions to divest an estimated $15 billion from oil and gas companies, a measure opposed by the funds’ managers.
An offshore wind energy project near Nantucket, Mass., was handed a win Thursday against fishing groups that have been trying to stop the project’s construction.
Belem, a city in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest region, will host the United Nations’ annual climate change summit in 2025, President
A US district court didn’t have the jurisdiction to hear a Utah property owner’s suit seeking an order compelling the Environmental Protection Agency to more quickly finish a contamination study of its soil, the Tenth Circuit said Friday.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission must revisit multiple orders allowing work on the Mountain Valley Pipeline to resume, after an appeals court held Friday that the agency had inadequately explained its decision to skirt certain review related to the project’s sedimentation impact.
Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, the US and its allies froze an estimated $300 billion in Russian central bank assets that were being held in non-Russian financial institutions. Sanctions imposed on prominent Russian individuals have frozen an additional estimated $58 billion in assets, including homes, yachts and private aircraft.
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The Republican-dominated Texas House of Representatives is scheduled to consider articles of impeachment against Attorney General
The US Patent and Trademark Office’s decision that a LegalForce trademark attorney violated the agency’s rules of professional conduct was upheld by a Virgina federal judge who denied the attorneys’ attempt to fight the decision.
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