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The Oregon lawsuit alleges that the utility knew of the dangers of burning fossil fuels and misled its customers. Oregon officials have added the state's largest natural gas utility as [...]

The environmental group, which is being sued by the pipeline company in North Dakota, threatened to use new European rules to try to limit potential damages. The News Greenpeace recently [...]

For more than 100 days in 2015 and 2016, gas leaked out of the Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage Facility near Los Angeles -- the largest known leak of methane [...]

It seems safe to assume that nobody read Donald Trump Jr.'s damning emails with a Kremlin-connected lawyer more closely than Robert Mueller. Mr. Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible ties [...]

LINCOLN, Neb. -- The developer of the Keystone XL pipeline is shifting course in Nebraska and will withdraw lawsuits seeking to gain access to the property of landowners who oppose [...]

It's a billionaire cage match. In one corner is Stephen A. Wynn, the casino impresario. In the other is James S. Chanos, the famous short-seller who helped expose Enron as [...]

PARIS, Tex. -- The Canadian energy company TransCanada can take over land owned by a Texas farmer to build its Keystone XL pipeline, a county judge ruled on Wednesday night. [...]

Many judges are lucky to handle just one era-defining case during their tenures on the bench. In his 16 years as a federal bankruptcy judge, Arthur J. Gonzalez has handled [...]

WASHINGTON -- An electricity price-fixing scandal thought to have cost New York consumers about $300 million has led to a proposed settlement with Morgan Stanley for $4.8 million. But the [...]

Lawyers for investors in Enron will get $688 million in fees for recovering more than $7.2 billion from its lenders, auditors and directors, a judge ruled. The judge, Melinda Harmon […]

Seeking to put its legal problems behind as it confronts larger financial ones, the banking giant Citigroup said on Wednesday that it had settled claims accusing it of helping the […]

Three former British bankers were sentenced on Friday to 37 months each in prison for their role in a fraud related to Enron. In brief statements, the three men -- […]

Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay creditors of the Enron Corporation, the energy trading company, $25 million to settle a lawsuit related to transactions between the companies, Enron said on […]

A federal bankruptcy judge has ordered the Goldman Sachs Group to release to creditors of the Enron Corporation all documents and materials related to a financial project between the New […]

These are tough times for plaintiffs' lawyers handling securities class-action lawsuits. On Monday, a federal appeals panel ruled that a class-action lawsuit against several Wall Street investment banks for their […]

In a decision that she conceded flies in the face of previous rulings by other courts, a federal judge in Houston has ordered the law firm of William S. Lerach, […]

Barclays Bank said on Friday that it would pay $144 million in cash to settle a dispute with the Enron Corporation. Barclays said it settled the claims because 'it was […]

For Jeffrey K. Skilling, it was a last summer of freedom before the bars close behind him. Mr. Skilling, 52, a former Enron chief executive, will stand in federal court [...]

Andrew S. Fastow, the former chief financial officer of Enron, whose schemes to defraud the company made him a symbol of corporate corruption, was sentenced Tuesday to six years in [...]

The estate of Kenneth L. Lay, who died after being convicted of heading a fraud that led to the collapse of Enron, agreed to pay $12 million to settle claims […]

Three British bankers extradited to the United States last week to face Enron-related fraud charges will not be allowed to return to Britain before their trial, which, their lawyers, said […]

Merrill Lynch agreed on Thursday to pay the Enron Corporation $29.5 million to settle its portion of a lawsuit filed against 10 banks accused of failing to prevent Enron's collapse. […]

For corporate America, the most important fact about the Enron verdict returned by a Houston jury on Thursday may be that Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling were convicted […]

Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling, the chief executives who guided Enron through its spectacular rise and even more stunning fall, were found guilty Thursday of fraud and conspiracy. […]

It's finally over. For nearly five years, this city has been trying to focus on something other than the collapse and messy aftermath of Enron. So as news of the […]

Guilty! Guilty! The headline announcing the Enron verdict yesterday in a special edition of The Houston Chronicle was short and to the point, much like the 'extra' the newspaper produced. […]

One after another, the jurors spoke and, in different voices, it all added up to the same thing. They simply could not believe, the eight women and four men of […]

Guilty of crimes -- and a whole lot more. Regardless of whether the jury verdict against Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling is upheld, testimony from 56 days of […]

THE subtext of every criminal trial is, What is the jury thinking? The Enron trial was no different. In the short time I was there, during the testimony of Jeffrey […]

Jurors in the criminal fraud trial of Enron's former chief executives, Jeffrey K. Skilling and Kenneth L. Lay, began their deliberations on Wednesday after a federal prosecutor hit back at […]

Kenneth L. Lay, former chief executive of Enron, was forced to sell millions of dollars in Enron stock in 2001 because of demands from his brokers, not because of a [...]

Defense lawyers in the Enron trial called on two accounting specialists on Wednesday to refute prosecution claims that the company had falsified its books. One accounting specialist told jurors yesterday [...]

During his six days on the stand, Kenneth L. Lay battled hard to resurrect his reputation as a business leader. But the former Enron chief executive's refusal to accept that [...]

Having $100 million in personal debt did not stop Kenneth L. Lay from spending $200, 000 on a birthday cruise for his wife and holding onto some $30 million in [...]

GRIM news about energy prices collided with great news about the economy this week, but it was no contest. Optimism triumphed; oil prices stalled and then retreated slightly. Stocks rallied. [...]

IN 1995, Jeffrey K. Skilling was feeling blue. Since joining Enron from McKinsey & Company five years earlier, he had worked nonstop to build Enron Capital and Trade Resources from […]

Three British bankers may be extradited to the United States to face Enron-related fraud charges, the High Court ruled on Tuesday in a ruling that was the first test case […]

The former chief executives of Enron, Jeffrey K. Skilling and Kenneth L. Lay, boasted about the company's thriving retail energy services segment, even as they knew it had suffered huge […]

In surprising testimony on Wednesday, Enron's former head of investor relations said that the company fudged its quarterly earnings and repeatedly lied to Wall Street about the true condition of […]

Taking another step to put the Enron debacle behind it, J.P. Morgan Chase agreed yesterday to pay $350 million in cash to settle claims over the role it played in […]

In the first significant shareholder settlement since Enron collapsed more than three years ago, Citigroup has agreed to pay $2 billion to investors who accused the bank of aiding Enron […]

Five former traders were indicted yesterday in Houston on charges of reporting false trades to industry newsletters to manipulate natural gas prices. Federal prosecutors charged former traders for the El […]

Kenneth Lay, a founder of the Enron Corporation, will get two criminal trials -- one by himself and one with his former protege, Jeffrey Skilling, a judge ruled Tuesday. Judge […]

A judge ruled on Friday that three British bankers can be extradited to the United States to face charges of wire fraud related to off-balance-sheet dealings with the Enron Corporation. […]

The J.P. Morgan Chase & Company said yesterday that a London court ordered the German bank WestLB to pay $165 million along with interest and costs in a suit related […]

The Bank of America Corporation agreed yesterday to pay $69 million to settle a suit by Enron investors over the bank's role as underwriter for some debt offerings. Bank of […]

The defendants in the first criminal fraud trial stemming from the collapse of the Enron Corporation may have found help from an unlikely source: Andrew S. Fastow, the former executive […]