Environmental Law News

Nebraska will receive more than $2 million from federal stimulus money to assess and clean up underground storage tank petroleum leaks.

Virginia is proposing new, stricter rules governing stormwater runoff, which occurs when fertilizer, oil, animal waste and other contaminants flow into public waterways.

Kay Sathre , with Sheldon Johnson, compares a clean water filter with one that was in her filtration system three days.

Though cozy on a winter day, smoke from wood stoves and fireplaces presents a greater cancer risk to Oregonians that what is belched by cars and trucks, according to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency analysis.

South Carolina's much-criticized effort to clean up pollution from leaking underground storage tanks is getting a $3.3 million stimulus boost from the federal government.

Tending to the lawn and being kind to Mother Nature have been at odds since the first power mower was manufactured in 1919, with the environment generally coming out the loser.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency welcomed Shaw Industries, Inc., the world's largest carpet manufacturer and a leading floor covering provider, as its newest WasteWise partner.

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that Nevada will get more than $1.2 million in federal stimulus funds to assess and clean up underground storage tank petroleum leaks.

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette is moving ahead with her bill to put a widely used oil and gas drilling process under federal oversight while also seeking a study to gather more data on the practice.

Xtreme Green Products, Inc. , an eco-vehicle company specializing in the development of electric land vehicles and personal watercraft, has announced today that the X Rider has become the first electric highway motorcycle to receive a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Certificate of Conformity.

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In December, I raised the alarm over Obama eco-czar's transparency-undermining, document-deleting habits.

The last piles of soil contaminated with toxic waste at a site in Pensacola have been buried.

U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma says he has placed a hold on federal stimulus funds directed toward a housing authority in Picher, a fading mining town located in a Superfund area.

Federal stimulus funding of $6 million has been allocated to the Central Valley for air-pollution-control measures, the regional air district announced Wednesday.

The Environmental Protection Agency is trying new tactics to clean up soil contamination in the Stage Road area of Vestal.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $35,000 to Oakland, Calif.-based StopWaste.Org to expand their ''Use Reusables' campaign, which teaches businesses how to reduce costs and improve their environmental performance by replacing limited-use pallets, boxes and other transport packaging materials with durable, reusable alternatives.

A public meeting is scheduled in Black Eagle on Tuesday to discuss the possible cleanup of lead and arsenic contamination, which likely came from a former copper refinery and smelter nearby.

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to begin a three- to four-month cleanup next week at lead-contaminated Rolnick Site along the Penobscot River in Brewer, Maine.

An environmental group has given formal notice that it will sue the federal government to protect polar bears from pesticide pollution.