BlackRock Inc. and other major financial institutions are working on plans to accelerate the closure of coal-fired power plants in Asia in a bid to phase out the use of the worst man-made contributors to climate change.

The Environmental Protection Agency failed to properly develop pollution cleanup plans for impaired waters in Oregon in violation of the Clean Water Act, according to an environmental group’s lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court.

The San Jacinto River Authority lost its bid Tuesday to have the Fifth Circuit shut down a challenge by two private utilities to its groundwater fees after a federal judge in Houston let the case move forward.

An injured worker and the family of his colleague who was killed in a toxic chemical leak last week at the LyondellBasell Industries NV facility near Houston are suing three of the company’s subsidiaries for gross negligence and, in the case of the dead man, wrongful death.

The Army Corps of Engineers failed to fully consider the environmental impacts when it issued a permit to Moda Ingleside Oil Terminal LLC for its export terminal expansion project in Texas, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in the state.

The SEC is contemplating whether to require companies involved with Bitcoin and other digital assets to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions from cryptocurrency mining, agency Chairman Gary Gensler said.

A Senate Republican is hoping to attach a provision reining in tax-advantaged land deals to the bipartisan infrastructure package.

US Wind Inc. has submitted a bid to Maryland regulators to build a massive wind farm off the state’s shoreline, the latest proposal for such projects off the East Coast and a potential step closer to the Biden administration’s goal of eliminating carbon emissions from power plants.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission must further review the impacts of several newly approved liquefied natural gas projects in Texas to take into account climate change and the people living near the project sites, the D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday.

PG&E Corp. said investigators are examining whether its equipment sparked a small California blaze that merged with the larger Dixie Fire that’s been burning for almost three weeks in mountains north of Sacramento.