The meaning of “indistinguishable” and what that says about one man’s North Carolina waterfront property is the focus of litigation that his attorneys are positioning as the next Supreme Court showdown over Clean Water Act wetlands regulation.
New York, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., and a coalition of other supporters told judges on Monday that the EPA was right to turn down a West Virginia air plan to make way for tougher ozone air quality actions.
The oil industry’s top trade group filed a petition in federal court challenging Biden administration mandates cracking down on planet-warming methane emissions from wells, tanks and pipelines, even as it pushes the government to make administrative changes.
Personal injury trials involving four diseases alleged to have resulted from firefighting foams containing PFAS would begin in 2025 under a newly issued federal court schedule tackling one of several sets of issues national litigation aims to resolve.
The EPA’s decision to broadly prohibit as many commercial and industrial uses of the solvent methylene chloride as it did in a rule issued last week is likely to be challenged in court, attorneys said in recent interviews.
In Nevada, can a balance be struck between an endangered toad species and the pressing need to address climate change? The future of NEPA, a 54-year-old environmental law, may hold the answer.
<-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018f-57f4-d4b6-a98f-f7f51c500000","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Shell Plc has agreed to sell its Singapore refining and chemicals assets to a joint venture between commodity trader
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One of the companies behind the world’s biggest carbon offsets project is asking an Indonesian court to allow it to continue to operate on 36,000 hectares in Borneo, an area roughly the size of Las Vegas.
The EPA’s decision to broadly prohibit as many commercial and industrial uses of the solvent methylene chloride as it did in a rule issued last week is likely to be challenged in court, attorneys said in recent interviews.
The meaning of “indistinguishable” and what that says about one man’s North Carolina waterfront property is the focus of litigation that his attorneys are positioning as the next Supreme Court showdown over Clean Water Act wetlands regulation.
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Banks are being advised to avoid using carbon credits to offset their financed emissions, as lawyers warn that new regulations in Europe will make greenwashing litigation a lot easier to pursue.
Typhoon activity in the Northwest Pacific region is expected to be about 20% below normal this year, forecaster Tropical Storm Risk said in its first outlook of the season.
The neighbor of a now-closed Tennessee landfill can keep pursuing some of its claims in a decade-old federal pollution lawsuit against the site’s operator, the Sixth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
The share of global electricity from renewables rose to a record 30% last year as the growth of wind and solar power continued to far exceed that of fossil fuels.
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The EPA’s decision to broadly prohibit as many commercial and industrial uses of the solvent methylene chloride as it did in a rule issued last week is likely to be challenged in court, attorneys said in recent interviews.
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