The Ninth Circuit vacated and remanded a lower court decision that environmental groups lacked standing to challenge BLM's decision to sell oil and gas leases in Montana. Below, the groups claimed BLM failed to adequately consider climate change, global warming, and greenhouse gases in violation of ...

The Fifth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision that investors who bought BP stock soon after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill may file a class action against the oil company for alleged misrepresentations regarding the oil flow rate after the spill, but that investors who purchased stock befo...