The U.S. Forest Service and its contractors will only remove trees in Sequoia National Forest in California that will soon fall or that pose a safety risk, according to a settlement agreement filed Wednesday in a federal court in the state.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is proposing to spend $3.9 billion to bring more wind and solar generation to Iowa in a project that could be among the renewable industry’s biggest.

President Joe Biden pledged to continue trying to lower oil prices that are running at a seven-year high despite his faltering effort to persuade producing countries to increase output.

The House Natural Resources Committee approved a wildlife conservation bill Wednesday that would establish $14 billion in funds for conservation projects for species recovery and wildlife habitat.

The EPA hasn’t followed federal guidance on emergency response systems, potentially hurting its ability to coordinate response efforts when environmental disasters happen, according to its internal watchdog.

As a cold blast approaches Texas, regulators are still trying to get their arms around the size and extent of the freeze that disrupted natural gas supplies almost three weeks ago.

A contractor hired to help clean up an oil spill beat BP’s demand for repayment of personal injury damages and settlements paid to the contractor’s employees because BP materially breached an indemnification agreement, the Fifth Circuit said Wednesday.

Old Dominion Electric Cooperative can’t recover around $15 million it incurred in responding to a polar vortex because the damages are higher than what’s allowed under a tariff rate cap, the Fourth Circuit affirmed Wednesday.

Proposed federal reliability standards for energy pipelines would constitute a “sweeping power grab” that would further raise consumer energy prices, Republican lawmakers said Wednesday in opposing Democratic legislation endorsed by Biden energy officials.

Elevate has been approved as the first non-lawyer-owned company to provide legal services in affiliation with a law firm, as part of the recent trend allowing the provision of legal services and law firm ownership by non-lawyers that is likely to bring unprecedented reform to the legal landscape.