A top Brazilian electric utility provider and two of its officials convinced a New York federal judge Wednesday to throw out an investor fraud lawsuit brought against them by the purchasers of bearer bonds and other securities the company says are unenforceable.

President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the EPA is promising a “thorough review” of waivers exempting oil refineries from biofuel-blending requirements, one of the thorniest issues confronting the agency.

The revival of an old oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands is being challenged by residents and conservation groups after it got a second lease on life from the Trump Administration.

EPA Administrator-designee Michael Regan vowed “a thorough review” of renewable fuel standard decisions, including waivers exempting oil refineries from annual biofuel-blending quotas.

President Biden’s nominee to lead the EPA said the agency can help chart fuel-economy and tailpipe emissions standards that guide an automobile industry already embracing electric vehicles.

Chesapeake Energy plans to cut 15% of its workforce as the shale-gas pioneer prepares to exit from bankruptcy.

BP Plc isn’t turning a profit yet on all its car-charging stations, but the U.K. oil giant expects that to change as more electric vehicles come onto market.

Oklahoma and Texas’ different laws on oil liens can result in a creditor seizing lien priority in one state but not the other, the Fifth Circuit ruled.

The EPA this summer will launch a court-ordered review of risks arising from old uses of asbestos that still may lead people to inhale the cancer-causing mineral, an agency official said Wednesday.

The Biden administration is resuming an environmental review of Vineyard Wind LLC’s $2.8 billion offshore wind farm planned near Massachusetts despite project developers’ decision to temporarily withdraw an application last year.