Texas Spot Power Prices Jump Almost 100-Fold on Tight Supply
Texas electricity prices soared almost 100-fold as a high number of power-plant outages raised concerns of a potential evening shortfall.
A legal analysis of the Interior Department’s intent to block an Alaska mining road is essential before the department makes its final decision in the coming weeks, Sen.
The Delaware Supreme Court won’t review a recent decision that slashes parts of the state’s climate lawsuit against BP PLC, Exxon Mobil Corp., and other companies, denying an interlocutory appeal request on Wednesday.
Judges pressed the EPA in arguments on Wednesday over whether the agency’s methods of weighing a Kentucky air plan were fair enough to justify denying the state program.
North Dakota, West Virginia, Texas and a group of other Republican-led states are beginning the legal brawl against mercury air toxics standards in a petition for review filed on Wednesday.
Colorado lawmakers passed legislation that would restore protections for the state’s wetlands and streams after the US Supreme Court removed federal safeguards for many marshes, swamps, bogs, and other waters last spring.
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.
Texas electricity prices soared almost 100-fold as a high number of power-plant outages raised concerns of a potential evening shortfall.
A group of 24 institutional investors with a combined $1.2 trillion of assets wants Barclays Plc to stop financing fracking, and argued a recent pledge by the British bank to restrict financing for companies that focus exclusively on fossil-fuel exploration and extraction doesn’t go far enough.
Enforcement of an Oklahoma law that penalizes companies deemed to boycott the oil and gas industry has been placed on hold by a state judge, bolstering arguments that such laws are confusing to implement.
Bipartisan legislation aimed at helping the US reduce reliance on Russia for nuclear energy heads to the Senate after passing the House on Wednesday.
North Dakota, West Virginia, Texas and a group of other Republican-led states are beginning the legal brawl against mercury air toxics standards in a petition for review filed on Wednesday.
The US can proceed with its environmental cleanup lawsuit against two New Jersey hazardous waste companies after a district court determined the government sufficiently alleged successor liability.
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The Biden administration raised the price it’s willing to pay to refill the country’s emergency oil reserves, which have dwindled near the lowest in four decades.
The Energy Department wants a case from 16 states dismissed that’s challenging a temporary pause on export authorizations for liquefied natural gas to countries without free trade agreements.
Judges pressed the EPA in arguments on Wednesday over whether the agency’s methods of weighing a Kentucky air plan were fair enough to justify denying the state program.
Neither of the companies vying for the trademark “Moke” agree with a lower court’s post-trial judgment, a Fourth Circuit panel noted during oral argument Wednesday.
Ex-Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s legal group has sued IBM Corp. subsidiary Red Hat Inc. claiming the company’s diversity goals led to the discriminatory treatment and termination of a former White male employee.
Two Georgia poll workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against Rudolph Giuliani accused the former New York mayor of making new, false statements about them during a livestream in April.
Texas’s highest criminal court tossed out a murder conviction Wednesday on the grounds that a jury shouldn’t have been shown videos of the defendant rapping about guns and criminal activity.
The path forward for the White House nominee to be the first American-Indian judge on Montana’s federal trial court is “uncertain,” said the state’s Republican senator.
A defendant pursued for years in a trade secret dispute between two trash compacting businesses—only to see all claims against him dismissed or abandoned—deserves to have his legal fees paid by someone else, an attorney argued Wednesday before the Delaware Supreme Court.
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