Jeff Bezos revealed that $1 billion of his $10 billion Earth Fund pledge to fight climate change will be directed to conservation efforts, principally targeting key areas for biodiversity and carbon stocks.

Officials gathered at the United Nations voiced both urgency and some optimism on the chances for meeting a $100 billion target in annual climate aid to developing nations, as the U.S. envoy dangled the prospect that President Joe Biden is about to pledge more funding.

Some environmental justice advocates are losing patience with White House efforts to launch a new screening tool that promises to pinpoint long-neglected and polluted communities, arguing that such vulnerable neighborhoods are well known.

Bill Gates raised more than $1 billion in corporate funding for Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, drawing on BlackRock Inc.’s Larry Fink and Microsoft Corp.’s Satya Nadella to rally support for some of the world’s most demanding clean-energy projects.

New York plans to build two new major electricity transmission lines to help the state meet its ambitious climate goals, which include getting 70% of its power from renewable sources by the end of the decade.

The U.S. Forest Service will get out of a lawsuit over its decision to issue a permit to a company planning to build winter huts near snowmobiling routes after a snowmobiling group dropped its challenge in a Washington federal court.

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. persuaded Delaware’s top court Monday to shut down a pension fund’s lawsuit over its $650 million financing deal with TerraForm Power Inc., a partial subsidiary it later took private, in a ruling that reversed 15 years of precedent.

A lower court needs to reconsider its finding that Corona Clay Co. violated the terms of its water pollution permit after the U.S. Supreme Court limited the Clean Water Act’s pollution standard, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday.

Shrimp trawlers in North Carolina can avoid a lawsuit by environmental groups who said their releases of accidentally caught fish and net dragging activities pollute local waters, a federal court in the state ruled.

The EPA released answers to questions it received since August when it banned the pesticide chlorpyrifos in food and will release more guidance before the ban takes effect, agency officials said Monday.