/energy?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Energy Copyright 2025 À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. en-US Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:06:26 +0000 /energy/articles/2379216?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2379216 A Fifth Circuit panel has affirmed a lower court decision dismissing a surety company's lawsuit claiming BP and Chevron need to pony up $11 million to pay for offshore decommissioning costs, saying the insurer wasn't entitled to be reimbursed. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:50:00 +0000 /energy/articles/2378689?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2378689 Youths alleging President Donald Trump's energy policy directives harm their future by exacerbating climate change have urged a federal judge to keep their lawsuit alive, saying it "defies reason, science" for the government to claim the actions don't move the climate needle. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:38:08 +0000 /energy/articles/2378825?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2378825 A federal judge agreed Tuesday to drop two counts from a bribery indictment against U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and his wife, but said dropping the counts did not warrant dismissal of the entire indictment. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:25:37 +0000 /energy/articles/2378728?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2378728 The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a Louisiana federal court's axing of claims in a Wilco Marsh Buggies and Draglines Inc.'s excavator and dredging vehicle patent, saying they were invalid because the product detailed in the patent was sold in the 1990s. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:01:23 +0000 /energy/articles/2378564?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2378564 A Texas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday conditionally confirmed the Chapter 11 plan of hydrocarbon driller Scanrock Oil & Gas, after the debtor resolved objections from parties including an ad hoc group, certain creditors and the U.S. Small Business Administration. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:51:19 +0000 /energy/articles/2378605?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2378605 The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission can't justify its decision to exempt a Kansas electricity cooperative's transmission projects from a regional grid operator's process to determine how project costs are divided before they're approved, the D.C. Circuit heard Monday. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:14:37 +0000 /energy/articles/2378800?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2378800 A Texas bankruptcy judge Tuesday declined to undo a $118 million sale of almost all the assets of solar panel business Sunnova Energy International Inc., rejecting a St. Louis-area bank's argument that the debtor failed to disclose that nondebtor assets would be part of the transaction. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:42:21 +0000 /energy/articles/2377585?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2377585 Reentering or opening new markets in Syria, now that the Trump administration has revoked certain long-standing sanctions and export controls, necessitates increased due diligence and best practices capable of adapting to a changing local environment as well as future changes in U.S. law, say attorneys at Nixon Peabody. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:38:42 +0000 /energy/articles/2376960?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2376960 After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:22:40 +0000 /energy/articles/2378639?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2378639 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has said it will rescind a Biden-era Endangered Species Act rule that automatically places the strongest protections on all plants and animals covered by law. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:10:38 +0000 /energy/articles/2378604?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2378604 A North Carolina federal judge pushed into arbitration a quality control worker's overtime suit against a clean energy manufacturing company, ruling that the arbitration agreement the company presented to him while he was a putative member in a related case is valid. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:58:44 +0000 /energy/articles/2378569?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2378569 A Ninth Circuit panel has hit pause on the federal government's scheduled transfer of a centuries-old Indigenous worship site within Arizona's Tonto National Forest to a copper mining company while challenges to a multibillion-dollar proposed project play out in the appellate court. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:28:04 +0000 /energy/articles/2378777?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2378777 The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday upheld injunctions barring the National Labor Relations Board from prosecuting unfair labor practice cases against SpaceX and two other companies, saying the removal protections that federal labor law gives board members and agency judges likely violate the U.S. Constitution. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:53:15 +0000 /energy/articles/2378548?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2378548 Utility company Black Hills Corp., advised by Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, on Tuesday announced plans to merge with Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP-advised energy and infrastructure company NorthWestern Energy Group Inc. in an all-stock deal with a combined enterprise value of $15.4 billion. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 10:59:15 +0000 /energy/articles/2376188?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2376188 Recent antitrust developments from red state attorneys general continue a trend of environmental, social and governance scrutiny, and businesses exposed to these areas should conduct close examinations of strategy and potential material risk, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:27:16 +0000 /energy/articles/2378390?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2378390 Airgas' collective bargaining agreement with a Teamsters local in Allentown, Pennsylvania, protects its workers' right to respect picket lines, the local told a Pennsylvania federal judge Monday, asking him to toss the gas supplier's claim that the workers' refusal to cross a picket line was a strike that violated the contract. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:19:18 +0000 /energy/articles/2378287?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2378287 A Mexican construction company asked a New York federal court Monday to vacate a $46 million arbitral award favoring industrial conglomerate Honeywell's subsidiary in a dispute over a contract to fabricate equipment for a liquefied natural gas plant, calling the award invalid, unjust and "grotesque." Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:01:21 +0000 /energy/articles/2378397?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2378397 Executives and board members of Cencora Corp. tentatively settled a stockholder derivative suit for $111.25 million, VectoIQ board members reached a $6.3 million deal on stockholder claims over electric carmaker Nikola's prospects, and class attorneys who secured a $50 million derivative suit settlement saw their proposed 25% attorney fee cut by almost half. Here's the latest from the Delaware Chancery Court. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:52:01 +0000 /energy/articles/2378407?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2378407 A Michigan judge on Monday said the state attorney general's legal fight over an Enbridge Energy LP pipeline in the Great Lakes can continue, even while the U.S. Supreme Court mulls whether the case belongs in state or federal court. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:21:24 +0000 /energy/articles/2377978?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2377978 Ukrainian gas companies seeking enforcement of a $34 million arbitral award against Russia have asked the D.C. Circuit to reject the Kremlin's sovereign immunity defense, saying the appeals court has already determined that argument lacks merit.