A horseshoe crab harvest in a South Carolina refuge can move forward pending a pharmaceutical lab’s challenge to a judge’s order finding a special use permit is required, the Fourth Circuit ruled.

Three more circuit courts must weigh broader oil and gas industry arguments in favor of federal jurisdiction for climate litigation after the U.S. Supreme Court remanded a trio of appeals to conform with a recent ruling.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to wade into a dispute over whether Westmoreland Coal Co. could use its bankruptcy to modify or cancel retiree benefit payments that are otherwise federally required.

An unprecedented fight over who should sit on the board of Exxon Mobil Corp. is turning into a referendum on Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods as a decades-long struggle by climate campaigners comes to a head.

European Union leaders are poised for a wrangle over how to distribute the burden of the EU’s bolstered plan to stem climate change.

Texas lawmakers advanced a sweeping and potentially costly measure that would require power plants and some gas facilities to prepare for extreme winter weather as part of an effort to avoid a repeat of February’s energy crisis.

The number of new people forced to move within their own countries by climate disasters rose to the highest in at least a decade in 2020, more than three times those displaced due to conflict and violence.

The market froth propelling clean-energy technology stocks has delivered billions of dollars of trading profits to investors across the globe and led to the creation of dozens of funds designed to prosper from the surge in prices. Whether it’s electric-vehicle makers like Tesla Inc. and its lesser-known rivals, or companies such as QuantumScape Corp. that are developing next-generation lithium-ion batteries, or solar-panel manufacturers like Enphase Energy Inc., these stocks have mostly all gone in one direction, and that’s higher.

The Dakota Access oil pipeline faces continued threats to its existence, even after surviving another shutdown battle in federal court.

Scientists fear a proposed mine could dry out a Georgia swamp and fuel intense wildfires that could add carbon dioxide to the air instead of absorbing it.