The justices unanimously rejected a federal appeals court ruling that had blocked Chevron and its co-defendants from transferring to federal court a lawsuit over decades of oil and gas activity along the Louisiana coast.
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong joined a 21-jurisdiction coalition in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's repeal of the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards Rule, which tightened limits on emissions of mercury, arsenic, lead and acid...
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has issued a subpoena to the Environmental Law Institute and its Climate Judiciary Project as part of an investigation into suspected violations of the state's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, his office...
The Supreme Court held that Chevron USA Inc. has plausibly satisfied the "relating to" requirement of the federal officer removal statute, 28 U.S.C. §1442(a)(1), for a Louisiana state-court environmental lawsuit. The Court concluded that the suit...
Judge Kathryn H. Vratil of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas overruled Harcros Chemicals Inc.’s motion to dismiss in a systemic class action alleging that carcinogenic ethylene oxide emissions from a Kansas City, Kansas, facility injured a...
Dek: A federal judge in Hammond refused to let BP Products North America kill class allegations before discovery, ruling that plaintiffs have presented plausible factual allegations that, with the benefit of discovery, could later justify class certification.