TotalEnergies court ruling raises questions over corporate climate plans
June 29, 2026
| Louis de Briant
A Paris court ruling that French energy giant TotalEnergies is required to account for climate risks and emissions from the use of its products raises questions about the climate plans and investment decisions... (more story)
DOJ, Mississippi recast xAI pollution suit as fight over citizen enforcement
June 26, 2026
| Amy Miller
The Trump administration and Mississippi are hoping to turn the NAACP’s lawsuit accusing artificial intelligence company xAI of illegally operating air-polluting gas turbines into a legal fight over federalism... (more story)
EU leaders task Ireland with budget revenue talks amid debate over ETS funds
June 22, 2026
| Louis de Briant
The role of Emissions Trading System revenues in financing the EU's next long-term budget is emerging as a sensitive issue in negotiations over the 2028-2034 spending plan. EU leaders tasked Ireland with advan... (more story)
US FTC chairman may revamp 20-year antitrust, consumer protection orders
June 22, 2026
| Mike Swift and Khushita Vasant
The chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission, Andrew Ferguson, has ordered the agency's antitrust and consumer protection staff to scrutinize whether a 1995 FTC policy that settlement orders sunset only aft... (more story)
The new politics of data centers: US governors say build, but pay
June 12, 2026
| Amy Miller
Governors are increasingly abandoning state policies aimed at attracting new data centers powering the artificial intelligence industry as grassroots opposition to development builds across the US. In Texas, I... (more story)
Ohio becomes test case for data center opposition as US tech companies defend plans
June 09, 2026
| Amy Miller
As data centers proliferate, tech companies are being called to defend their data center development plans before worried lawmakers. Ohio is becoming a test case for what’s ahead across the country as state la... (more story)
Litigation to test EU's plan to build carbon-storage market
June 01, 2026
| Louis de Briant
Fifteen legal challenges brought by EU oil and gas producers against the bloc's Carbon Capture and Storage framework are set to test the legal foundations of a key pillar of the Net-Zero Industry Act. The case... (more story)
Jurisdictional lines at heart of US data center hookup talks
May 29, 2026
| Emma Whitford
US state utility regulators are awaiting federal guidance that could standardize how energy-intensive artificial intelligence data centers hook up to the electric grid. The process, which kicked off last fall,... (more story)