In Tuesday's environmental law news, the US Environmental Protection Agency has announced that is will be awarding over $40 million to over 140 American Indian tribes for environmental protection projects. The tribes , mainly...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in Kane v. Espitia that California inmate Joe Garcia Espitia isn't entitled to a new trial because he was denied virtually all access to a jail law library while representing...

At the urging of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, the Bahrain Embassy in Washington has formally demanded that the US government promptly investigate charges of torture, abuse and other inhumane tactics being used against Bahraini prisoner...

According to a recent survey from ROMIR Monitoring , more than half of Russians think those in positions of power, ranging from the president and parliament to government and the courts, are dishonest and corrupt. Alexander Konovalov, the president...

After what Human Rights Watch has called a flawed trial , a 14-year-old boy is facing execution in Saudi Arabia after his conviction for the murder of a young child. The three-year-old victim was found dead...

Leading Friday's environmental law news, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released an analysis comparing a number of different proposed legislative and regulatory initiatives aimed at reducing air pollution from coal fired power...

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...

Experts with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concern over the fairness of the trial of 15 men in Uzbekistan charged with terrorism and precipitating the violent uprising in the town of Andijan [JURIST...

Australian Capital Territory Chief Minister Jon Stanhope on Thursday became the first state or territory leader in Australia to reject the federal government's proposed anti-terrorism legislation in its current form. Stanhope's opposition focused...

After Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to the US Supreme Court in a letter to President Bush Thursday, Republican and Democratic Senators who had generally been lukewarm about her nomination and skeptical of her experience and...