Environmental Law News

The construction worker who died in Evanston Thursday morning after he was struck by a falling beam was a 57-year-old man from Dyer, IN, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.

Ron Poirier couldn't escape the feeling that his cancer was somehow a punishment.

President Barack Obama and his liberal supporters have made it very clear their philosophy of government is that it is their way or the highway.

THE conclusion of negotiations between the European Union and Pacific Island states on a comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement on the export of fish products to Europe by June or July this year is unrealistic.

First, the details. Republicans have been successfully using the threat of filibuster to make it incredibly difficult for the Obama White House to appoint judges to circuit courts, political staffer positions at executive agencies, and - to an extent - chill the administration's decisions for cabinet picks.

For 92 percent of requests from green groups, the EPA cooperated by waiving fees for the information.

OSHA and BNSF Railway reached an agreement earlier this year to change procedures the safety agency said discouraged employees from reporting injuries.

Wolf Creek Generating Station is nuclear power plant near Burlington in east-central Kansas.

Are you uncertain about which CAD cells are which in New Bedford Harbor? The increased number of confined aquatic disposal cells has led to some confusion about which are where and what's in them.

The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general has been asked to look into claims that the agency stymied efforts by conservative groups to obtain government records while giving favorable treatment to environmental groups.

Authorities are praising new metal detectors that prevented a man from walking into the Morgan County courthouse with a weapon in his back-pocket. Authorities are praising new metal detectors that prevented a man from walking into the Morgan County courthouse with a weapon in his back-pocket. The Gatlinburg Presbyterian Church congregation speaks ... (more)

Federal workplace safety regulators have proposed fining a Jefferson sawmill nearly $80,000 for what they allege are dangerous work conditions.

A Republican-controlled House panel moved Thursday to protect the Department of Homeland Security from the big cuts facing other domestic agencies under the party's budget slashing plan.

The EPA took testimony on the appeal during a pair of hearings in Bismarck on Wednesday.

Under President Obama, two women have been the director of the Environmental Protection Agency , Carol Browner, who served in the Clinton administration and was one of the " czars " Obama appointed; her acolyte Lisa Jackson, and up for the post is Gina McCarthy.

President Barack Obama 's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency has moved one step closer to getting the job, but it came without Republican support.

Cobbossee Stream served as an industrial hub for two centuries, first fueling lumber and grist mills, and later paper mills and manufacturers.

Environmental activists across Florida have been waiting more than two years for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to land a serious body blow against the state's enforcement branch.

More than a hundred people, a dozen strollers and a few dogs lined up and marched about halfway around the Allied landfill site in Kalamazoo Wednesday night chanting - "What do we want? Cleanup! When do we want it? Now!" The landfill isn't a typical landfill; it's where a paper mill dumped decades worth of waste that's laced with cancer causing ... (more)

With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration climate change regulations to the U.S. Supreme Court.