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08/29/2025 08:00 AM EDT
The Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) filed a motion for summary judgment in its challenge to the State of New York's "Climate Change Superfund Act," which imposes $75 billion in liability on foreign and domestic energy companies for their alleged past contributions to climate change. The complaint was filed in May, along with a complaint against the State of Vermont for its similar statute, to advance President Donald J. Trump's executive order to protect American energy from state overreach.
08/29/2025 08:00 AM EDT
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit published an opinion upholding the Department of the Interior's 2024-2029 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program. The program sets the number and location of offshore oil and gas lease sales that Interior will hold during the ensuing 5-year period.
08/29/2025 08:00 AM EDT
Timothy Brandon Parsons, 38, of Louisa, Kentucky, entered a guilty plea to conspiring to defraud the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) in relation to an underground fire that occurred in the MC#1 Mine in Franklin County, Illinois, in August 2021.
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