A trial judge’s criminal contempt ruling against Johnson & Johnson and a key witness in its defense of a talcum powder product liability suit must be reversed because the judge “inferred and presumed” that the company and witness lied to him, an Illinois appeals court ruled.

The Pentagon is ramping up its war games and planning exercises to better understand the risks of climate change, two Defense Department officials said Thursday.

Environmental equity advocates pressed the Biden administration Thursday to make further changes to a tool federal agencies are planning to use to pinpoint disadvantaged communities that deserve more federal dollars to rectify decades of environmental pollution.

A Valero Energy Corp. subsidiary and three contractors face safety fines totaling $1.75 million following a California state investigation into the death of worker at Valero’s refinery in Benicia, Calif.

The US Food and Drug Administration denied two petitions from environmental and health advocates to ban food packaging phthalates and accepted an industry group’s petition to stop authorizing phthalates no longer used in food containers, the agency said Thursday.

The US government is opposing Rockall Energy Holdings’ bankruptcy plan, calling for revisions that would have the oil explorer comply with environmental health and safety rules and reclaim its well sites.

A ban for bags, sleeves and other food packaging with intentionally added PFAS is coming to Washington state in two years after the state Department of Ecology published alternatives on Thursday.

As Texas officials hunt for financial firms hostile to the energy industry, Wall Street is rolling out its fossil fuel bona fides to convince officials not to bar them from doing business with the state.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service must decide whether to protect a lizard that faces significant habitat destruction because of oil and gas development, sand mining, and agriculture, a conservation group told a New Mexico federal court Thursday.

Several carbon-capture pipelines financed by Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., John Deere & Co., BlackRock Inc. and other investors will face increased governmental scrutiny after a Minnesota utilities commission on Thursday voted to initiate a rulemaking process to regulate liquefied carbon dioxide.