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A North Carolina business owner agreed to pay $1.25 million for the cleanup of two Superfund sites where 4,000 tons of asbestos-contaminated material were removed, following a jury trial that found the owner personally liable for the waste, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

A group of consumer interest advocates and traditional organic farmers fired back against the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s argument that hydroponic growers can label their goods as “organic,” telling the Ninth Circuit on Monday that the agency “replows” old arguments and ignores congressional in…

Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Jhett R. Nelson co-led a team advising on one of the largest private acquisitions of oil and gas assets in recent years, earning him a spot among the energy attorneys under 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

A contractor in charge of a Washington state solar project says Zurich wrongly defaulted on a $30.9 million performance bond guaranteeing the work of a subcontractor that didn’t deliver on its promises.

The U.S. government on Friday told the Ninth Circuit it should uphold a ruling allowing American prosecutors to seize a nearly $380 million arbitral award, telling the appeals court the opposition has argued itself out of court.

The Biden administration on Thursday announced a new effort to strengthen oversight of carbon dioxide pipelines, just over two years after a devastating explosion spewed asphyxiating fog into a Mississippi town and sent 45 people to the hospital.

The Ninth Circuit on Thursday affirmed an Arizona federal court’s ruling that blocked a major copper mining project in the state, finding mining law does not permit contentious plans to dump nearly 2 billion tons of waste in national forests.

California’s investigation into ExxonMobil’s role in plastics pollution could be the start of the next big headache for oil companies already defending a tide of litigation over their role in climate change.

A Wyoming federal court said it will certify a class of landowners accusing Anadarko Petroleum Corp. of violating federal antitrust law by using its market power to gatekeep the development of oil and gas across the southern portion of the Equality State.

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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has brought on four seasoned attorneys from Winston & Strawn LLP to join its energy team in California, as the firm positions itself to lead in the state’s ballooning renewables and regulatory sector.

The U.S. Department of Energy has backed the city of Berkeley against claims its ban on natural gas infrastructure is preempted by federal law, telling the Ninth Circuit that nothing in the statutes prohibits the California city’s regulations.

Paloma Partners VI Holdings LLC has reached an approximately $480 million deal to acquire Goodrich Petroleum Corp., the companies announced Monday.

The U.S. Supreme Court, the Second Circuit and a Dutch court delivered a trio of major climate change decisions in the first half of 2021. Here, Law360 breaks down those decisions in the first of two articles on the biggest energy-related court decisions so far this year.

Vaughn Morrison of Troutman Pepper has advised ConEdison in acquiring a $1.5 billion renewable energy asset and helped National Grid Renewables procure several utility-scale renewables, earning him a spot among the top project finance law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.