Citgo refinery in Lake Charles, La., which carried out a controlled shutdown earlier this week, suffered damage from Hurricane Laura Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Bayer AG’s $11 billion settlement of thousands of U.S. lawsuits over its Roundup weed killer is less defined than the company disclosed, a judge overseeing the suits said, threatening to let litigation move forward.

The Bureau of Land Management violated federal law and a 2018 court order with its plans for fossil fuel development in the Powder River Basin straddling Montana and Wyoming, conservation groups allege in a new federal lawsuit.

California has approved the largest investment in electric-car charging stations by a U.S. utility as part of an ambitious effort to cut emissions that contribute to global warming.

Silica hazards and other dangers observed at a Texas manufacturer of stone countertops led federal safety inspectors to propose $219,679 in fines—penalties that come little more than a year after a fatal accident that resulted in citations against the company.

In the chaos surrounding Hurricane Laura, a sprawling chemical plant in Port Arthur, Texas, released nearly 90 tons of emissions, including a half ton of cancer-causing benzene and 8.7 tons of planet-warming nitrous oxide. The leaks reported to state regulators in two days totaled more than the facility, Motiva Chemical, had in unauthorized emissions in all of 2018.

The Environmental Protection Agency failed to fulfill its Clean Air Act duties to act on plans to reduce ground-level ozone, which includes smog pollution, in parts of California and Colorado, two environmental groups allege in a federal lawsuit.

Hurricane Laura raked Louisiana early Thursday, becoming one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the state, leaving in its wake chemical fires, wrecked buildings, flooded roads and what could be more than $15 billion in insured losses.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is considering raising the state’s gasoline tax by 5 to 10 cents per gallon to cover road and rail projects as a commuting shutdown has decimated fuel sales, according to a person briefed on the matter.

The EPA wants to communicate reliable and accurate data about the risks that releases of the cancer-causing ethylene oxide gas pose to the public, an agency official said Thursday.