Environmental groups in California have filed a lawsuit contesting the approval of revenue bonds to build a massive $16 billion water tunnel under an ecologically sensitive estuary, saying the state hasn’t yet completed required impact reviews.

While pension funds and insurers say they want to be more environmentally conscious, they say they’re struggling with third-party investment managers that exaggerate their green bona fides.

California officials should be blocked from re-opening a sand dune area to off-road vehicles that have killed federally-protected western snowy plovers in the past, a conservation group says in a lawsuit filed Thursday in California federal court.

Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron USA Inc. had no duty of care to an Iranian citizen who was exposed to asbestos while working in a refinery controlled by the company’s predecessors, a California appeals court said.

Montana regulators denied an unusual move by a utility to ask ratepayers to pay for millions of dollars in costs tied to its decision to shut down a power plant over air toxics violations.

Rhode Island can pursue climate-related claims against oil and gas companies in state court, the First Circuit ruled Thursday in a setback the industry has already vowed to challenge.

The Trump administration announced sanctions on eight companies involved in the sale of Iranian petrochemicals and said previous seizures of Iranian petroleum bound for Venezuela brought the U.S. $40 million that will be given to American victims of terrorism.

Apache Nitrogen Products Inc. will pay $1.5 million as part of a settlement with the federal government over safety and reporting violations linked to two releases of ammonia gas, according to filings in an Arizona federal court.

James Reilly, the director of the U.S. Geological Survey, retaliated against an employee who had earlier blown the whistle on his conduct, the Interior Department’s internal watchdog said Thursday.

The EPA’s failure to update two air pollution control standards for industrial flares is causing sites to release more pollutants and putting nearby communities at risk, environmental groups say in a lawsuit filed Thursday in a Washington, D.C. federal court.