Shaw Group, Liberty Mutual reach $1.1M settlement in long-standing dispute
The Shaw Group Inc., an energy services firm founded by prominent Baton Rouge businessman Jim Bernhard, has agreed to pay Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance...
Court won’t block federal rule on emissions at Denka’s LaPlace facility
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has refused to block a new federal rule requiring Denka Performance Elastomers to dramatically limit the release of...
Supreme Court upends 40-year-old Chevron decision, considered a win for business interests
The Supreme Court last week upended a 40-year-old decision that made it easier for the federal government to regulate the environment, public health, workplace...
Louisiana, others hope to block federal rule requiring oil & gas industry to cover...
Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi sued the U.S. government last week to block a proposed federal rule that would require the offshore oil and gas...
Pipeline brawl in Louisiana rattles industry desperate to build
A legal battle in Louisiana is hobbling construction of three pipeline projects worth more than $2 billion, reports Insurance Journal. Yet the litigation isn’t...
Oil companies in Vermont must now pay for damage from climate change
Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate...
This Louisiana plant says it might have to close if EPA rules aren’t relaxed
A synthetic rubber manufacturer in Louisiana accused of increasing the cancer risk for the nearby majority-Black community told a federal appeals court that it...
Court testimony details Shell earnings, profits
Financial details of Shell’s vast oil and gas trading business are some of the company’s closest-held secrets.
However, testimony by a former head of Shell’s...
Groups sue Louisiana over LNG project permits
Community and environmental groups are suing Louisiana to block approvals for a massive liquefied natural gas export project, reports E&E News.
In a petition filed last...
LNG permit freeze challenged by 16 states in lawsuit
Texas, Louisiana and more than a dozen other U.S. states challenged the Biden administration’s suspension of new licenses to export natural gas via ocean-going...
