DOJ Stops Monitoring Houston Illegal Dumping in Retreat From Environmental Justice December 11, 2025 By Jim Mustian and Juan A. Lozano The U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn from an agreement with the city of Houston to curb illegal dumping in Black...
California Resources Reports Oil Fluid Spill in Monterey County December 5, 2025 A pipeline owned by California Resources Corporation subsidiary Aera Energy spilled 96 barrels of produced fluid — a mixture of...
Trump Outlines Plan to Unwind Biden-Era Car Mileage Mandates December 4, 2025 By Jennifer A. Dlouhy President Donald Trump unveiled his administration’s plan to relax stringent Biden-era fuel efficiency standards, casting the change as a way...
Trump Inflames California Over Oil Drilling Plan for Pacific Coast November 21, 2025 By Nichola Groom President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday unveiled a plan for a dramatic expansion of oil and gas drilling rights auctions...
California Refinery Closures Spark Pipeline Race to West Coast November 21, 2025 By Shariq Khan and Nicole Jao A race is on among energy companies to build a major fuel pipeline to the U.S. West Coast, a potentially...
Business Groups Ask Supreme Court to Pause California Climate Reporting Laws November 19, 2025 By Lindsay Whitehurst and Sophie Austin The U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked the Supreme Court to pause new California laws expected to require thousands of companies...
Newsom Calls Trump Offshore Oil Drilling Plan DOA at Climate Summit November 12, 2025 By Jennifer A. Dlouhy California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a planned Trump administration proposal to sell new oil drilling rights off the U.S. West...
Washington Supreme Court Restores $185M Monsanto Chemical Leak Verdict October 30, 2025 A U.S. court reinstated a $185 million verdict against Bayer’s Monsanto unit over chemical contamination at a Washington state school...
ExxonMobil Sues California, Claims New Green Laws Violate Speech October 27, 2025 By María Paula Mijares Torres ExxonMobil Corp. has sued California, arguing that two new state laws violate the First Amendment by trying to force it...
California AG Pledges More Lawsuits Against Trump’s Green Rollbacks October 6, 2025 By Valerie Volcovici and Sheila Dang California Attorney General Rob Bonta said his state would continue to sue the Trump administration’s aggressive deregulatory actions on environmental...