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Several US states, cities, and environmental groups led by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit Thursday against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US Court of Appeals for...

Leading Thursday's environmental law news, Louisville, Kentucky Mayor Jerry Abramson directed an advisory group to review and recommend changes to the area's air pollution program. The Strategic Toxic Air Reduction program was enacted in 2005...

Leading Thursday's environmental law brief, the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court has ruled that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) has the authority to adopt stormwater rules...

Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, the UK Environment Agency has been found guilty of polluting the waters of the Barle River, a tributary of the Exe in Devon. The pollution consisted of hazardous chemicals from cement waste...

New York v. EPA, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, March 17, 2006 [holding that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot exempt coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and other industrial facilities from a requirement to install new...

The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals held Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot exempt coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and other industrial facilities from a requirement to install new pollution controls to keep...

A Nigerian court in the southern city of Port Harcourt Friday ordered Royal Dutch Shell to pay $1.5 billion to compensate local communities for environmental pollution caused by the company's activities in the southern Niger delta region,...

Leading Thursday's environmental law news, James Hardie Industries signed an agreement Thursday with the government of New South Wales to pay $4.5 billion to compensate Australian asbestos victims. Hardie, a building products company,...

Leading Friday's environmental law news, representatives from countries surrounding the Barents Sea have held a meeting in Norway to discuss global warming and the Kyoto Protocol . The Barents Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC) consists of representatives from Russia,...

In Thursday's environmental law news, sixteen firms, including Huffy, Lockheed Martin, Mobil Oil, and Philip Morris, have agreed to pay $14.9 million for polluting groundwater in California. In 1979, a contamination plume, measuring 1 mile wide...