North Dakota can’t trust the Biden administration to advocate for the state’s interests in litigation over the Dakota Access oil pipeline, state lawyers said Monday in a request to intervene in the case.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. is falling behind China in the race to seize opportunities created by climate change, in a speech that cast the challenge of a warming planet as a chance to create more jobs and export American values.

Legislation in Texas advanced Monday targeting gas utilities and identifying critical electricity infrastructure, but stopped short of mandating winterization of the state’s power grid in the wake of this year’s massive deep freeze.

The Catawba Indian Nation can build a casino and entertainment complex in North Carolina, despite claims by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians that the project could impact cultural sites, a Washington, D.C., federal court ruled.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants to launch a new luxury tax, impose a digital tax on large businesses, and cut taxes for firms reducing greenhouse gas emissions under his budget plan released Monday.

Justin Trudeau’s government is proposing a raft of funding for Canadian companies -- including money for infrastructure and tax incentives for carbon-capture technology -- aimed at emerging from the global pandemic with a stronger economy than before.

Gulfport Energy Corp. won a group of unsecured creditors’ support for its Chapter 11 plan by agreeing to increase their recovery.

As President Joe Biden unveils an ambitious target this week to cut the nation’s climate-warming emissions, his administration is also taking steps to refute critics who say it’ll put large numbers of American jobs at risk.

The Department of Agriculture must reconsider how grazing by domestic sheep used for its research service will affect bighorn sheep and grizzly bears in Idaho, a federal court in the state ruled in a win for conservation groups.

President Joe Biden aims to prove to the world this week that the U.S. has rejoined the international fight against climate change by vowing cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that are both ambitious and achievable.