The Trump administration was sued by several environmental groups that claim it has violated the Endangered Species Act with a long-awaited assessment of the harm that offshore oil and gas drilling could do to wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico.

Several states—including the biggest, California—have moved to partially or fully ban the use of nonstick chemicals known as PFAS in firefighting foam. But many of these bans won’t take effect for years or, in some cases, many years.

A group of Zambian women and children filed a suit against Anglo American Plc in South Africa, alleging the company caused widespread lead poisoning from a mine it operated until 1974 in the northern city of Kabwe.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is backing down from its challenge to a court’s finding that it failed to properly study the impact of logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, according to a filing in the Ninth Circuit.

Avangrid Inc., the U.S. arm of Iberdrola SA, agreed to buy PNM Resources Inc. of New Mexico for $4.3 billion, strengthening the Spanish utility giant’s position as a global giant in an industry that’s being transformed.

NextEra Energy Inc. executives see the possibility of faster renewable-power growth should Joe Biden win the presidency -- but say their company would thrive under a second Trump term, too.

If Joe Biden wins the presidency, his EPA chief could be a clean air champion from California who has fought President Donald Trump on automobile pollution or an environmental justice activist from Mississippi.

Spain’s largest utility Iberdrola SA became the first major renewable-energy developer to halt new investments in Mexico after the government took steps to slow solar and wind projects in the country.

A Democratic ad that aired in Colorado described Sen. Cory Gardner and President Donald Trump as sticking together “like peanut butter and jelly.”

Bayer AG’s Monsanto, already on the hook for multibillion-dollar claims over the Roundup weedkiller, lost a ruling at France’s top court in a case filed by a farmer exposed to another herbicide.