Environmental Law News

A researcher with the Environmental Protection Agency will talk about education during a lecture at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

West Virginia Congressman Nick Rahall II -- the loyal Democrat and friend of labor -- is squarely between those who want to restructure the American economy and those who see coal and affordable energy as critical to the nation's strength.

Last week, blasting began on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia. This is a part of the country where dynamite routinely goes offa 'turning the regiona TMs historic mountain ranges into dust for the tiny coal seams that lie beneath their surface.

The latest U.S. Environmental Protection Agency meeting and their efforts to marginalize the University of Michigan Dioxin Exposure Study has to leave one wondering what's next in this endless parade of bureaucratic roadblocks.

The House approved legislation Friday aimed at making chemical and water treatment facilities less vulnerable to terrorist attack.

Fish and shellfish will soon get more protection from mercury and other toxins in the atmosphere that end up in US waters.

A local landlord has been fined nearly $8,000 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to notify tenants of toxic lead-based paint inside six apartments on Chestnut Avenue.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has filed a complaint against a Haines fish processor, accusing the plant of violations of the federal Clean Water Act.

It might make farmers happy, but increased ethanol content in fuel worries boaters.

Polyvinyl chloride is a versatile plastic used in a wide variety of products, among them wire insulation, building materials and medicine containers.

The former executive director of a Rhode Island environmental group has been chosen to lead the regional office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The University of Missouri Extension has received federal funding to help Amish and Mennonite produce growers reduce the use of high-risk pesticides.

A great deal of misinformation is being circulated about efforts by water management districts, numerous cities and counties, utilities throughout Florida and industries across the state in response to efforts by the federal government, through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , to impose arbitrary nutrient standards for nitrogen and ...

Chris Hamilton and Michael Carey warn that pending federal "cap-and-trade" legislation and increased U.S. Environmental Protection Agency intervention will cripple the coal industry.

The Environmental Protection Agency says it has given Chesapeake Bay states its "rigorous expectations" of what is needed to restore the nation's largest estuary.

The City School District is among the top three school districts in the country in utilizing renewable energy sources, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A New Bedford seafood processing plant faces $66,800 in fines following a probe into the death of a worker who became caught in an industrial ice-making machine.

More toxic waste must be removed from this Powell Butte Ranch,former owner Dennis Beetham and his company DB Western have 30 days to submit a plan before the US Environmental Protection Agency steps in, at his expense.

Climate change has slipped so far down on the agenda that at least one key committee chairman has suggested it might have to wait until after the 2010 elections.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency still does not know the exact number of coal ash dumps at the nation's power plants, but it's moving ahead with plans to regulate them.