Environmental Law 
ConocoPhillips adds Harvard environmental law professor to board – The Business Journal
ConocoPhillips ConocoPhillips Latest from The Business Journals Summer NAPE plans heating up Shell, Exxon lead Fortune Global 500 list, beating Wal-Mart Phillips 66 finds interim headquarters Follow this company (NYSE: COP) has added Jody Freeman to its …
Argentina: Law On Environmental Liabilities – Mondaq
Law No. 14,343 was published on Monday January 23, 2012 in the Official Bulletin of the Province of Buenos Aires. Such law is intended to regulate the identification of environmental liabilities and the obligation to restore contaminated sites. This law … Continue reading
Shell Alaska Drilling: Conservation Groups Sue Over Arctic Spill Response Plans – Huffington Post
… alleges the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and U.S. Interior Department officials violated environmental law, the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act in approving spill plans for the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.
EPA overrules Maine on alewives issue – Boston Herald
… Foundation filed a lawsuit against the agency in an effort to compel it to review and overrule the Maine laws. Another environmental group, the Richmond-based Friends of Merrymeeting Bay, had notified EPA they intended to sue as well.
Canada’s PM Stephen Harper faces revolt by scientists – The Guardian
The showdown between the government and scientists was set late last month by the passage of a budget bill that weakened or abolished scores of environmental laws. The government claims the cuts are intended to shift more resources towards monitoring … Continue reading
ConocoPhillips board elects new outside director – AP – msnbc.com
is the Archibald Cox Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program. She will serve on the Public Policy Committee of the ConocoPhillips board. CEO Ryan Lance … Continue reading
Conoco adds woman to board after criticism – Reuters
Freeman, 48, is the Archibald Cox Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is a scholar of administrative and environmental law and is the founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program, Conoco said.
Environmental ‘citizen lawsuits’ are equivalent to ambulance chasing, critic says – Legal News Line
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – A little known provision contained in federal environmental laws known as the “citizen lawsuit” is funding political special interest groups, critics say. “It is the environmental law equivalent of ambulance chasing,” said …
Militants slam Aquino policy as same old ‘plunderous mining law’ – Global Nation
It continues to ignore the necessity to replace the mining law with stringent policies on environmental regulation, greater state role and advancement of the people’s welfare as espoused in the people’s mining bill pending in Congress,” Bautista said.
Environmental Law Alert – Northwest Indiana And Northeast Illinois Counties Designated As Nonattainment For Ozone Despite Conflicting Data – Mondaq
On May 31, 2012, and just formally published at 77 Fed. Reg. at 34221 (June 11, 2012), EPA designated the northwest Indiana counties Lake and Porter as marginal nonattainment for the 2008 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). On … Continue reading
