Environment ministers from the Group of 20 nations were unable to reach full agreement on key climate goals, just 100 days before a critical international conference kicks off.

Australia succeeded in efforts to prevent the Great Barrier Reef from being listed as endangered by a United Nations organization after a diplomacy blitz.

The Biden administration will avoid a lawsuit in a New York federal court after reversing a Trump-era decision that allowed federal funds to be used to remove sand from protected coastal barriers.

The wife of tycoon and Russia Open founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky failed to show that the writer and director of a play that ran in Washington invaded her privacy and caused her emotional distress by depicting her as a murderer and prostitute, the D.C. Circuit affirmed Friday.

The U.S. Forest Service failed fully consider the consequences when it approved Montana’s plan to use helicopters to poison fish and replace them in a wilderness area, environmental groups told a federal court in the state.

The Department of Defense would have to meet certain deadlines and set cleanup schedules for “forever chemicals” under a $740 billion authorization bill headed to the Senate floor.

The Group of 20 ministers couldn’t agree on phasing out coal and curbing global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius at a meeting in Naples, Ecological Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani said at a press conference.

FirstEnergy Corp. surged the most in more than five months Thursday after the Ohio utility reached an agreement with federal prosecutors over a corruption case involving a $1 billion state bailout for nuclear power plants.

Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Bossert Clark announced this week he will head up strategic litigation efforts at the civil rights nonprofit, New Civil Liberties Alliance.

The EPA will act on plans to reduce air pollution in California and Colorado as part of an agreement with environmental groups filed in a California federal court.