The presidents of the United Steelworkers labor union and the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers have called on the Biden administration to fill the four empty seats on the U.S. Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigations Board.

Fieldwood Energy LLC won bankruptcy court approval of its disclosure statement, allowing the offshore oil driller to solicit votes for its Chapter 11 plan.

Former leaders and financial backers of Alta Mesa Resources Inc., an energy business that collapsed after combining with a blank-check company to go public, must face securities fraud claims brought by a group of pension and investment funds, a federal judge in Houston ruled Wednesday.

A scrap metal company in Los Angeles must immediately prevent projectiles from being launched onto a nearby school campus, after a state court granted a temporary restraining order Wednesday.

President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan and $1.5 trillion budget proposal are just the first steps in a likely government-wide effort to remove barriers to racial equality and environmental justice, a White House official said Wednesday.

A former Michigan environmental agency employee faces embezzlement charges after allegedly diverting bond proceeds tied to the state’s well-permitting process to bank accounts he controlled.

BP Products North America Inc. can be held liable for exceeding its particulate matter emissions limits for boiler stacks at its Indiana oil refinery and for failing to retest those stacks, an Indiana federal court ruled Wednesday.

A decline in energy use and less reliance on coal caused emissions to steadily fall in recent years, the Environmental Protection Agency’s annual greenhouse gas inventory shows.

Brenda Mallory, President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality, won Senate confirmation on Wednesday.

Utility companies that complained about new lease accounting rules distorting their profits are about to get a break.