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A New York judge on Wednesday ordered ExxonMobil to cooperate with a New York investigation into whether the company misled others about the effects of climate change. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had issued previous...

The Washington Supreme Court ruled against plans for a big oil terminal on the West Coast on Thursday. The court ruled that the proposal must be reviewed under the Oceans Resources Management Act...

The Suffolk Superior Court in Massachusetts ordered on Wednesday Exxon Mobil to turn over 40 years' worth of documents on climate change. This ruling stems from a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) issued by...

JURIST Guest Columnist Victor B. Flatt of Universtiy of North Carolina School of Law discusses the recent withdrawal of arctic lands from drilling by President Obama...On Dec. 20, 2016, President Obama withdrew all of the northern Atlantic Ocean and most...

Murray Energy Corporation , the largest privately owned coal company in the US, filed a lawsuit last Thursday in an attempt to block new regulations promulgated by the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) ....

A scientific study released in the journal Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences found that cheetah populations throughout Africa, the Middle East and Asia are declining as habitats are encroached by various human actors. The cheetah is now...

US President Barack Obama on Sunday approved legislation which would provide for a single chief executive to oversee non-military, international media. The law , which some claim may harm journalistic independence, will restructure the Broadcasting Board...

The Obama administration is dismantling the dormant national registry program that was used to keep tabs on visitors from countries with active terrorist groups, the administration announced Thursday. The National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (Nseers) is...

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced a ban on offshore drilling in almost 120 million acres of federally owned Arctic and Atlantic waters. As a preemptive opposition to President-elect Donald Trump, the goal of the...

Italian voters on Sunday rejected proposals to reform the Italian constitution. The referendum proposed changes that would have amended the structure of parliament and concentrated more power in the centralized government as opposed to the Senate, the upper...