Energy company Vitol Inc.'s challenge to a Fifth Circuit ruling denying their claim on an alternative fuel tax credit for its fuel production lacks merit and doesn’t warrant rehearing, the United States said in a Friday filing to the appeals court.

DCP Operating Co. will pay $650,000 and implement various measures to reduce emissions at its gas plant in Texas, according to an agreement with environmental groups filed in a federal court in the state Friday.

A federal appellate court on Friday rejected claims a Minnesota county’s ordinance intended to reduce volumes at state landfills and promote waste-to-energy initiatives discriminated against out-of-state waste haulers.

Neither Cypress Environmental Management nor its client, Phillips 66 Co., can force the pipeline inspection company’s employees to arbitrate a wage dispute, the Fifth Circuit affirmed Friday.

Drexel Chemical Co. won’t face agricultural workers’ claims that they were poisoned by the company’s pesticides because they waited too long to file suit, the Sixth Circuit ruled Friday.

The Biden administration’s new rulemaking for carbon dioxide pipeline safety, and a nearly $4 million fine for a 2020 pipeline rupture, are seen as a step toward carbon capture goals that envision building out thousands of miles of pipelines, industry watchers said Friday.

A conservation group declared victory after the EPA disapproved “core sections” of Montana’s revised water quality standards, and the group notified a federal court in the state that it was dropping its related lawsuit.

The true economic costs of last year’s deadly Texas winter storm on the state’s electricity grid are finally coming to light.

The US Forest Service again approved the Kilgore Gold Exploration Project in Idaho without adequate information and without taking into account new circumstances that arose since the prior approval, conservation groups told a federal court in that state.

The Biden administration kept in place strict constraints on Chevron Corp.’s operations in Venezuela, thwarting the US driller’s push to ramp up production in the country amid global oil shortages.