Advocates seeking to hold major oil and gas companies liable for climate change damages will continue to up the pace of litigation in 2026, undeterred by a mounting series of state court losses in 2025, according to court watchers and attorneys.

There was perhaps no bigger story last year in the world of Big Law than President Donald Trump’s attacks on several of the nation’s largest law firms through punitive executive orders due to political affiliations and adversarial hires.

The EPA announced Wednesday it will regulate dozens of ways five chemicals are used to protect workers and the environment.

Sable Offshore Corp. can begin pumping oil from its three platforms off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., after a federal appeals court allowed the restart of a contested pipeline Wednesday.

A Florida hospital lost efforts to revive allegations that C.R. Bard Inc. and Bard Access Systems Inc. unlawfully tied catheter sales to another medical device after the Tenth Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling Wednesday that dismissed the claims.

Amtrak got a major victory Wednesday when the Eighth Circuit reversed a $44 million jury award it had been ordered to pay to the estate of a man shot to death on a train in a “random execution.”