The EPA and an asphalt company agreed to lock down a Missouri lead-contaminated soil dump to prevent future development in a proposed consent decree in federal district court.

ExxonMobil will be refunded over $207 million in penalties and interest it paid to the IRS because it had a reasonable basis for oil and gas transactions it filed as purchases, a district court said.

The Biden administration is taking steps that could limit the ability of oil refineries to get exemptions from a federal biofuel-blending mandate.

Federal agencies must seek approval before allowing current or former political appointees to move into career civil service jobs, the Office of Personnel Management said in a memo to the government’s top human resources officials.

The Clean Power Plan remains sidelined as judges agreed Monday to hold off on scrapping repeal of the Obama-era carbon rule while the Biden administration reviews climate and environmental standards.

Nada Culver, most recently a senior policy counsel at the National Audubon Society, will replace William Perry Pendley as the Bureau of Land Management’s deputy director of policy and programs, the Interior Department announced Monday.

The U.S. Supreme Court appears conflicted in a bitter water dispute that pits Florida’s oystermen against Georgia farmers.

Banco Santander SA pledged to support the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change and achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, including client emissions resulting from its financing, advisory or investment services.

Auto, airplane, and other manufacturers could lose the right to use certain flame retardants, lubricants, and other chemicals they deem essential, now that the Biden EPA is reviewing exemptions to five toxic substances rules granted during the Trump era, several attorneys told Bloomberg Law.

Crown Resources Corp. can’t force a conservation group to provide information on how it spent the company’s funds on environmental projects in the Okanogan Highlands in Washington state, a federal court in the state ruled.