A UK judge ruled Wednesday that Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) can be sued by two Nigerian towns in a British court for their involvement in oil leaks in Nigeria. Lawyers from Leigh Day brought a case [press...
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Robert Kaluza, a former rig supervisor for BP, was found not guilty in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana Thursday of violating the Clean Water Act over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill...
More than 200 members of Congress filed an amici curiae brief in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Tuesday, challenging the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that the Obama administration delay enforcement of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP) pending a resolution to legal challenges. The 5-4 decision was...
The Poison Poor Children Drink: Six Lessons from the Flint Tragedy
JURIST Guest Columnist Robert Percival from University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law discusses what can be learned from the tragedy in Flint, Michigan...Americans who visit China quickly notice one significant difference from travel in the US. Even...
Federal appeals court backs EPA Minnesota air pollution plan
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday, dismissing a claim that the imposed pollution regulations in Minnesota are too lenient. The...
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Thursday rejected a bid to block the implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP) . A three-judge panel of the DC Circuit...
Brazil alleges environmental crimes in investigation into Fundao dam collapse
Brazil's Federal Police have accused seven people and three companies of environmental crimes in its probe into the major Fundão dam collapse that occurred on November 5. The collapse, which has been termed the worst environmental disaster in the nation's...
The Hague Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the Royal Dutch Shell can be sued in a Dutch court for their involvement in oil leaks in Nigeria. The ruling stems from a suit...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday issued an order preserving Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations that limit mercury emissions and other hazardous pollutants from...
