Environmental Law

MARTINEZ — A prominent San Francisco environmental law attorney has been sentenced to probation and electronic home detention for a drunken-driving accident that killed a pedestrian neighbor in Rossmoor last year. Robert David Wyatt …

… Web sites Monday protesting a measure before the Canadian Parliament they say would substantially water down environmental laws. Environmental groups, such as the National Resources Defense Council, say pipelines planned from oil fields in …

Opponents counter that the sweeping bill would gut the country’s environmental laws and sharply curtail nonprofits’ activism. “Our government’s … trying to push through pipelines at all costs. That new attitude is propelled by their surprise …

But critics said the moves – in a 425-page omnibus bill being rushed through the House of Commons with the goal of getting it passed by mid-June – will turn the clock back a half-century on Canada’s environmental laws. Meanwhile, … Continue reading →

Opponents counter that the sweeping bill would gut the country’s environmental laws and sharply curtail nonprofits’ activism. “Our government’s … trying to push through pipelines at all costs. That new attitude is propelled by their surprise …

A round-up of the top climate and energy news. Please post other links below. The government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is rewriting the nation’s environmental laws to speed the extraction and export of oil, minerals and other …

MARTINEZ — A prominent San Francisco environmental law attorney has been sentenced to probation and electronic home detention for a drunken-driving accident that killed a pedestrian neighbor in Rossmoor last year. Robert David Wyatt …

Those were the old days. The government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is rewriting of the nation’s environmental laws in order to speed the extraction and export of oil, minerals and other materials to a global market clamoring for … Continue reading →

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s cabinet ministers fanned out across the country Monday in response to a “black-out” campaign urging the federal government to back down from using its budget to rewrite Canada’s environmental laws.

“Over one-third of [Bill] C-38′s text is devoted to short-circuiting Canada’s most important environmental laws,” said Rick Smith, the executive director of Environmental Defence Canada. “Christmas came seven months early for the oil industry,” he said …