Environmental Law

Loyola University New Orleans Environmental Law Professor Named Fulbright Scholar – PRWeb

Robert Verchick J.D., the Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar of the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant for 2012-13. The award, which is part of the Fulbright-Nehru Environmental Leader Program, will …

Loyola University New Orleans Environmental Law Professor Named Fulbright Scholar – YAHOO!

Robert Verchick J.D., the Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar of the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant for 2012-13. The award, which is part of the Fulbright-Nehru Environmental Leader Program, will …

Environmental groups revise lawsuit concerning Birmingham’s Northern Beltline – Everything Alabama Blog

But Black Warrior Riverkeeper and attorneys from the Southern Environmental Law Center argue the reevaluation is not the kind of systematic study required by the National Environmental Policy Act. “ALDOT’s so-called reevaluation is more of a …

Opinion: N.J. DEP ‘waiver rule’ is broadest attack on environment in decades – NJ.com

Under the waiver rule, the DEP commissioner could waive virtually any section of any rule or approve permits even if they violate the law, allowing polluters and developers to be exempt from critical environmental, public health and safety protections.

Conservation leader still active in Michigan – Times Union

The Michigan Environmental Protection Act of 1970 went into effect during then-Gov. William Milliken’s tenure. Over a series of years the Legislature also passed a number of strong laws to protect wetlands, Great Lakes shoreline, natural rivers …

Nigeria: IOCs Flout Global Standard, Country’s Environmental Laws – AllAfrica.com

Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has blamed decades-long hydrocarbon pollution in Nigeria on failure of International Oil Companies (IOCs) to adhere to global environmental standard and Nigeria’s environmental laws and regulations.

HoustonPBS UH Moment: UH Law Center’s Environment, Energy & Natural Resource Center – Daily Cougar Online

The University of Houston Law Center is home to the Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Center or EENR. “The EENR Center is designed to take advantage of the fact that we are located in the energy capital of the United … Continue reading

PTO Grants Wrapsol’s Request for Inter Partes Reexam of Zagg’s Patent – msnbc.com

Miele Law Group PC and Cooley Manion Jones LLP … Committed to community and the environment, all Wrapsol device protection systems are engineered, manufactured and packaged at its Massachusetts headquarters and come in 100% recyclable packaging.

H.R. 2018 Would Undermine the Clean Water Act and Should Provoke Backlash – Huffington Post

As early as today, the House will vote again to undermine that 1972 landmark law, and I hope the results will be the same: a public backlash that stalls environmental rollbacks. The measure the House is considering this week (H.R. … Continue reading

Conservation leader still active in Michigan – MLive.com

The Michigan Environmental Protection Act of 1970 went into effect during then-Gov. William Milliken’s tenure. Over a series of years the Legislature also passed a number of strong laws to protect wetlands, Great Lakes shoreline, natural rivers …