The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed stricter smog standards that would likely put hundreds of additional counties in violation of the regulations.
Scientists had recommended the proposed new standards before…
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to force Illinois to close shipping locks to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes.
After making headlines several months ago by posting a video on YouTube to bolster its defense of an Ecuador-based environmental mass tort case, Chevron is again trying an unusual litigation…
The U.S. Department of Labor is seeking to impose a record-breaking $87.4 million in penalties on oil giant BP for safety violations at a refinery it operates in Texas.
One of two men who made a secret videotape seemingly showing an Ecuador judge in a $27 billion environmental case discussing his upcoming ruling is a convicted drug felon, the…
A federal appeals court is allowing a suit by victims of Hurricane Katrina who claim oil, coal and chemical companies contributed to global warming, increasing the ferocity of the hurricane…
A federal jury in New York today found Exxon Mobil Corp. liable for polluting well water in the New York City’s borough of Queens with a gasoline additive and ordered…
As Congress prepares to update a 33-year-old law that governs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation of toxic chemicals, the executive branch is seeking more authority over what officials describe…
Bill Weinstein says officials in the Seattle suburb in which he is building a waterfront home agreed he could have a salmon hatchery there, as part of a settlement of…
A federal appeals court has reinstated lawsuits by eight states and others claiming power companies’ carbon-dioxide emissions are contributing to global warming.
The public nuisance suits seek caps on emissions,…
A little-noticed U.S. Supreme Court decision on heightened federal pleading standards has been cited in more than 1,500 cases, spurring trial lawyers and groups backing civil rights and consumer causes…
Reversing a trial judge’s dismissal of a community group’s civil rights lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on mootness grounds, a federal appeals court panel has ruled that the…
Saying that DuPont engaged in “a deliberate scheme to interfere” with the court’s rulings during more than a decade of litigation over damage allegedly done to Ecuadorian shrimp beds by…
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