In Tuesday's environmental law news, as part of a plea bargain with the US Department of Justice , the Taiwanese container shipping company Evergreen International S.A. has agreed to a $25 million fine and pleaded guilty...

In Monday's environmental law news, the California legislature is considering revisions to the 35-year-old California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The revisions are prompted by increased housing costs in the rapidly growing state. The CEQA requires a variety...

The US Department of Justice claimed Friday in court papers that contractors for the former Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq can be sued for profiteering under the Federal False Claims Act . Lawyers for the...

In Thursday's environmental law news, Australian state and territory leaders have agreed to establish their own carbon-trading system which would set a cap on the total volume of greenhouse gases an industry can emit. They would then divide the cap...

Hundreds of thousands of protestors gathered Saturday in a massive rally and march through the streets of Taiwan's capital Taipei to voice their opposition to China's anti-secession law authorizing the potential use of force against Taiwan in order...

US Army documents released Friday suggest that abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US military forces was more widespread than previously revealed. An Army investigative report from January 2004 reviewing events in 2003 concluded that at a detention facility near...

Lawyers for groups seeking to overturn California's new domestic partnership law argued their case in a state court Friday. The law went into effect January 1 and gives gay couples who register as domestic partners...

In Thursday's environmental law brief, a Jakarta Indonesia court has ruled that the travel ban on the six Newmont Mining Co. executives that has been in place since last October is illegal. Despite the ruling, the executives...

In Monday's environmental law news, facing a declining tiger population, India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has banned gifts of live tigers to foreign dignitaries, established a wildlife crime prevention bureau, and created a taskforce of forest officials,...

Former US attorney general John Ashcroft has accepted a part-time position as Distinguished Professor of Law and Government at Regent University , the Virginia Beach Christian graduate school headed by evangelist Pat Robertson [Regent University President...