By Marcia Coyle | August 25, 2017
Thirteen legal scholars, in a letter to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, say U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's reassignment of 50 senior executives is illegal if the moves are part of an attrition strategy or to punish views inconsistent with the Trump administration's policies.
By Marcia Coyle | August 17, 2017
Elbert Lin, West Virginia solicitor general who led the state's court fight against the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, is leaving his post, according to the state's attorney general.
By Marcia Coyle | August 9, 2017
Environmental advocacy groups are considering their next step after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit allowed another 60-day delay in a decision in the lawsuit.
By Cogan Schneier | August 2, 2017
Democratic state attorneys general scored two wins in D.C. Circuit Court in 24 hours allowing them to defend Obama-era health care and environment policies under threat from Republicans and the Trump administration.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 28, 2017
A federal appeals court has reversed dismissal of two class actions brought over the Flint water crisis, garnering a rare victory for plaintiffs lawyers representing the city's residents.
By C. Ryan Barber | July 21, 2017
Chopping down Washington's "dense thicket of rules, regulations and red tape," as President Donald Trump described it in June, doesn't always come so easily—or quickly. For a number of other regulations, the Trump administration has been playing the delay game.
By Cheryl Miller | July 6, 2017
California and seven other states on Thursday moved to defend Obama-era ozone pollution standards that Attorney General Xavier Becerra said may be left to die under Scott Pruitt's leadership of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
By Cogan Schneier | July 3, 2017
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's effort to roll back Obama-era regulations hit a legal roadblock Monday when a federal appeals court ruled the agency illegally delayed a rule to limit methane pollution.
By Cogan Schneier | June 21, 2017
Gibson Dunn, representing Dakota Access, must file its opening brief by July 17 regarding the Standing Rock Sioux's request to shut down the pipeline. A decision is not expected for months.
By Ross Todd | June 20, 2017
Elizabeth Cabraser will reprise her role leading an emissions-related MDL—to the chagrin of at least one of her co-counsel.
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