A key pipeline linking Canada’s oil sands to U.S. markets could start shipping crude as early as next month.

Imposing hefty taxes on water rights sales, barring out-of-state people from holding water rights, and requiring buyers to hold onto land for a minimum number of years to prevent flipping of water were among several ideas put forward Friday by a Colorado group aiming to stop water profiteering in the state.

Conservation groups can challenge the Tennessee Valley Authority over its long-term electricity contracts with local utilities, even though the groups aren’t parties to the contracts, a Tennessee federal court ruled.

Environmentalists sued the EPA on Friday over an exemption that they say scraps emissions protections from Arizona agricultural equipment.

Brooklyn Union Gas Co. can proceed with its cost recovery claims against Exxon Mobil Corp. over the cleanup of a contaminated site in New York City, but the company’s contribution claim is time-barred, a federal court in the state ruled.

The Federal Communications Commission must take a second look and explain how its regulations protect against the harmful effects of radiation from cell phone towers and wireless devices, the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday.

Climate activists are starting to map out a coordinated campaign to oppose the potential re-nomination of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, because they view his record on fighting climate change through the banking system as scant and not aggressive enough.

Thirteen states led by Louisiana have moved to force the Interior Department to show how it’s complying with a federal injunction against the agency’s oil and gas leasing moratorium, court filings show.

Construction on the planned Obama Presidential Center in Chicago can proceed after an Illinois federal court ruled a group opposing the project failed to show their federal claims are likely to succeed.

The Dixie Fire has been burning for an entire month in Northern California, and that’s no longer unusual for giant wildfires torching the Golden State.