Environmental Law News

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative advocacy group, has sued the Environmental Protection Agency seeking an explanation of why it has been denied waivers of fees for provision of documents while environmental groups almost always got waivers.

The Commonwealth Court has adopted the federal standard for requests for protective orders covering trade secrets, which requires a party seeking discovery to show it has a compelling need to obtain the information that outweighs the potential harm of disclosure.

In a new letter of interpretation publically released on April 5, 2013 , the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced for the first time that during an OSHA inspection of non-union worksites, employees can be represented by Until now, OSHA's policy has been to allow union representatives to be the "employee representative" but only ... (more)

Chemicals are being discarded into our water systems throughout the country as well as reported by NBC News.Com, reporting that Minnesota's many lakes, remote and isolated urban areas contain a wide range of chemicals which included DEET, EPA, prescription drugs and also cocaine.

Thousands of residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed in the tornado have a break in the weather Friday to continue removing debris from their propertiers.

The public comment period is scheduled to end next week on a federal study of large mining impacts in the Bristol Bay region.

Xcel Energy has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle federal safety citations stemming from a fire that killed five maintenance workers near Georgetown.

Given the choice, most consumers say they prefer to get their nutrition from eating 'real' food - not popping pills - and ideally, foods 'naturally' rich in the desired nutrients.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia's governor and attorney general are joining two other states that are seeking to challenge federal environmental rules on greenhouse gas emissions.

The ABC News/Washington Post survey's Friday release comes as four federal agencies shut down for the day due to the forced spending cuts, known inside the Beltway as the sequester.

The decision came as part of a settlement in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.

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West Virginian Poultry Farmer Lois Alt filed a lawsuit against the EPA, alleging that she was threatened thousands of dollars in fines if she did not comply with environmental regulations based on inflated estimates of pollutants.

Federal officials have decided to spend the money needed to clean an Attleboro property contaminated with chemicals through decades of pollution by a previously existing chrome-plating plant.

Within the span of a few days in early May, Paul Hart signed a lot of documents that would change the way his oil and gas wastewater treatment plants would function in the future.

Opponents of a 7,305-yard golf course at Washington State University contend the school is mining a declining aquifer that provides water to the region for an amenity.

The U.S. law on chemical safety is 37 years old, riddled with exceptions and widely considered ineffective - so much so that the government hasn't even tried to restrict an unsafe chemical since courts overturned its asbestos ban in 1991.

Kennedy Mint will pay more than $30,000 in restitution to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and Cleveland Metroparks after pleading guilty to charges related to last year's fish kill in the Rocky River.

A Strongsville company and the owner's wife have pleaded guilty for their roles in the dumping of a drum of liquid cyanide into a storm drain that flowed into the Rocky River, killing more than 30,000 fish in April 2012.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement is leading a joint investigation with FWC regarding a video of a man jumping onto a manatee and her calf in Cocoa Beach.