Leading Friday's environmental law news, the US Environmental Protection Agency has ruled against a petition from the state of North Carolina to force the cleanup of coal-fired power plants in other states that North Carolina...
Leading Thursday's environmental law news, Nebraska's Bostwick Irrigation District has voted to sell its 2006 water allotment from the Republican River to the State of Nebraska for about $2.5 million. The deal will include 10,100 acre-feet of water...
Saddam Hussein formally testified in his own defense for the first time Wednesday at his trial in Iraq, calling the Iraqi High Criminal Court a "comedy" before the hearing was closed to the public. Chief Judge...
Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that Israel plans to put a group of Palestinian prisoners on trial for the 2001 killing of an Israeli tourism minister. The men were seized after Israeli forces...
More than 1,500 US federal judges have requested government-paid home security systems approved by Congress last year, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday. After a man broke into the home of District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow and...
Almost 300 photographs and 19 videos showing abuse at Abu Ghraib prison have been published by Salon.com , in what Salon says is the entire archive of Army photographic materials related to abuse...
Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, the Iowa Administrative Rules Review Committee has agreed to allow a set of water quality rules to go into effect on March 22. The rules will bring Iowa into compliance with...
The Tennessee Senate on Thursday passed a bill to remove from Tennessee constitutional law any guarantees of a woman's right to abortion. The vote was 24-9. Under Tennessee law, both chambers of the...
In an extension of an earlier lawsuit , the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed motions in federal court...
In an open letter in the British medical journal Lancet , more than 250 doctors from seven countries have urged the US government to ensure that detainees at Guantanamo Bay are examined...