Environmental Law News

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 .

Palermo's is taking the matter seriously, as it should, and the process will play itself out.

Residents referring to themselves as "Wheeling Water Warriors" have the chance to question GreenHunter Water officials about the company's plans to recycle natural gas frack water in Warwood.

How do you go about protecting yourself from acquiring environmental liability? The best answer is to do a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment .

The agency has rubber-stamped fee-waiver requests from environmentalist groups seeking information, but it denied similar requests from conservative groups, an extensive examination of EPA correspondence suggests.

The federal government is fining a southeast Kansas refinery $300,000 for deficiencies in the company's program to curb air pollution.

The biggest piece of President Obama's second-term agenda is his widely expected plan for the Environmental Protection Agency to issue new carbon regulations for power plants, a move that could bring the United States in line with the greenhouse-gas-reduction goals it agreed to in Copenhagen and open the way for an international treaty to control ... (more)

It's been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week at the White House-and it isn't looking like next week will be any better.

Washington County authorities say a man faked a marriage certificate so he could visit a woman held in the Johnson City Detention Facility.

The Environmental Protection Agency says the Warmhouse Beach dump, on the Makah Reservation, in Neah Bay should go on the list.

WASHINGTON The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized five facilities with the Energy Star Combined Heat and Power Award for their efforts to reduce emissions that threaten public health while increasing energy reliability and efficiency."Our Energy Star CHP award winners are better serving their students and patients while ... (more)

Indiana's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is seeking nominations for the Governor's Service Awards.

The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it was placing the former United Zinc & Associated Smelters Site on the federal Superfund National Priorities List.

The University of Michigan Water Center announced today that it has committed almost $570,000 in research grants to a dozen separate projects whose common goal will be to investigate ways to protect and restore the health of the Great Lakes, which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says contain more than 80% of the surface fresh water in ... (more)

May 21 - In two sharply worded letters sent to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell today, prominent scientists argued for continued protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states and criticized a draft federal proposal to remove those protections for being premature and failing to follow the best available science.

As a resident and business owner in Newmarket, I have an enduring love for my town.