Environmental Law News

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.

The board of the Stormwater Equipment Manufacturers Association announced that the organization's 2013-1014 initiatives will focus on expanding its outreach program to help communities attain the goals of the Clean Water Act.

According to a report from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the leak was discovered around 11:23 p.m. on Tuesday night.

Conservative groups seeking information from the Environmental Protection Agency have been routinely hindered by fees normally waived for media and watchdog groups, while fees for more than 90 percent of requests from green groups were waived, according to requests reviewed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

A University of Delaware-led study has found that decades-old federal standards overestimate current poultry industry contributions to water pollution.

Inside Arcadia Ales' brewery, the air is pungent with fermenting beer, and Tim Suprise is talking water .

The US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the Colorado-based firm for 10 serious, two repeat and two other-than-serious violations.