Environmental Law News

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.

During the first week of June, leaders of American Agri-Women from across the country will be in the nation's capital for the organization's annual Washington D.C. Fly-In. The 20th Annual Symposium will take place at the National Press Club the morning of Monday, June 3rd.

That's because four federal government agencies will be closed on Friday, including the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House Office of Management and Budget.

That's because four federal government agencies will be closed on Friday, including the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House Office of Management and Budget.

The U.S. Interior Department violated federal law by failing to conduct an environmental review before ordering a Northern California oyster farmer to shutter his operation, attorneys for the farmer told a federal appeals court panel in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Fridley's Citizen Advisory Group for local polluted Superfund sites meets on Thursday, May 23, 2013, from 6-8 p.m. at Fridley City Hall .