Political leaders at the White House and Commerce Department pressured the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to back up President Donald Trump’s false claims that Hurricane Dorian would strike Alabama, Commerce’s internal watchdog said in a report released Thursday evening.

Environmental groups plan to sue California’s fire response agency and a family timber company over a logging permit granted in Sonoma County that would clear mature redwood trees.

One year after saying Brazil doesn’t need money to protect the Amazon, President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration now says it expects international donations to the country’s Amazon Fund to resume.

Japan tightened conditions for its support of overseas coal-power projects, but left the door open to new plants that use the dirtiest fossil fuel despite sustained criticism from environmentalists and dissent within its own government.

Water pollution claims from the state of Washington and a conservation organization against the owners of a mine are based on alleged violations that happened in the past and should be dismissed, the mine owners say in a motion filed in a Washington federal court.

Less than half of the inmate crews that California relies on to fight wildfires across the state are available for deployment due to the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday.

Energy Transfer LP’s fight to stave off a shutdown of the Dakota Access oil pipeline now heads to a federal appeals court after a district judge on Thursday refused to cut the company a break.

The Bureau of Land Management didn’t violate federal law by relying on a 2012 environmental review of lands in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska for its 2017 sale of oil and gas leases in the area, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday.

A proposed $7 million class action settlement to resolve allegations that Statoil USA Onshore Properties underpaid royalties due under oil and gas leases in Pennsylvania has received preliminary approval, according to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

The Trump administration is urging a federal court to reject an “improper” legal deal between the Sierra Club and DTE Energy Co.—the latest example of the Justice Department’s ongoing efforts to rein in environmental settlements.