Bloomberg Lawyers for Exxon Mobil Corp. stood before a New York judge and told the state’s attorney general to “put up or shut up” after spending three years investigating the company’s public disclosures about climate change, saying authorities should sue the energy giant or move on. Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed a fraud lawsuit against Exxon in state court in ...

Bloomberg Endeavor Energy Resources LP, the largest privately held oil producer in the Permian Basin, is weighing a sale after receiving takeover interest from major energy explorers, according to people familiar with the matter. Midland, Texas-based Endeavor could draw interest from suitors including Chevron Corp. and BP Plc, said the people, who asked to not be identified because the matter ...

Bloomberg China’s Tianqi Lithium Corp. cleared a major hurdle in its bid to buy a $4.1 billion stake in SQM, the world’s second-largest producer of the mineral used in electric-vehicle batteries. Chile’s constitutional court has declared inadmissible a suit questioning whether an agreement between Tianqi and Chile’s antitrust agency FNE went far enough to protect SQM’s trade secrets against its ...