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...
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Wednesday that there has been a sharp decline in the number of asylum seekers globally and warned that asylum seekers worldwide face increasing threats as...
American businessman Philip H. Bloom pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of conspiracy, bribery and money laundering in a corruption scandal that continues to expand as investigators find "more cases of a similar vein in the pipeline." In his guilty...
Raouf Abdel-Rahman , the chief judge in the Saddam Hussein trial , read out a report by prosecution experts as the trial resumed Wednesday that authenticated the former leader's signature on several more documents submitted into...
Leading Friday's environmental law news, Magistrate Judge Robert Collings of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts has ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency must release internal documents relating to...
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...
In a joint statement issued late Tuesday, US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) said they would reexamine two provisions of a contentious immigration bill passed by the House...
In the wake of a request from the UN-supported Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) that the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor be transferred for security reasons,...
Lawyers for the US government on Tuesday urged a federal appeals court panel to remove District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth from a case involving the alleged mismanagement of American Indian money ...
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...
