Environmental Law 
California governor to scrap environmental exception for bullet train – Sacramento Bee
The Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council raised objections to Brown’s proposal, saying it was part of a pattern to water down one of the most important pieces of environmental law in history. Critics of the bullet train … Continue reading
House takes up waiver of border environmental laws – Post-Journal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House moved toward approval Tuesday of a bill that would allow the Border Patrol to circumvent more than a dozen environmental laws on all federally managed lands within 100 miles of the borders with Mexico … Continue reading
New York Fracking Laws: Environmental Activists Call On Governor Cuomo To Reject Drilling Proposal – Huffington Post
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Community organizers from New York’s Southern Tier joined health and environmental groups Wednesday at a rally calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to reject any demonstration project for shale gas drilling using hydraulic …
Southern Environmental Law Center supports N.C. Senate vote to uphold limits on toxic air pollution – Mountain Xpress
From the Southern Environmental Law Center: CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—“We welcome Senator Hagan’s support today of long overdue limits on mercury and other toxic air pollution from power plants. Today’s Senate vote to uphold the limits on toxic air …
Gov. Jerry Brown to scrap environmental exception for bullet train – Los Angeles Times
The Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council raised objections to Brown’s proposal, saying it was part of a pattern to water down one of the most important pieces of environmental law in history. Critics of the bullet train … Continue reading
High court throws out Southern Union’s $18M fine – msnbc.com
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court has thrown out an $18 million penalty against a natural gas company convicted of violating an environmental law. The court on Thursday voted 6-3 in favor of Texas-based Southern Union Co. in an appeal … Continue reading
B.C. environmental law group gives failing grade to Canadian budget bill – Georgia Straight
A B.C. group of environmental lawyers has given a failing grade to the new environmental assessment process proposed in Bill C-38, the federal government’s omnibus budget bill. A ‘report card’ issued by West Coast Environmental Law Association today …
Economy casts shadow on Rio+20 environmental summit – The Christian Science Monitor
The same roadblocks that have hindered all environmental summits in recent years have been … The U.S. and other rich nations have said that simply violates intellectual property laws, while poorer nations insist there is no way they can …
Failing Grade: New Federal Approach to Environmental Assessment Leaves Canadians at Risk and Without a Voice – Marketwatch
“In the final analysis, Bill C-38 just doesn’t make the grade,” says Jessica Clogg, Executive Director & Senior Counsel, West Coast Environmental Law Association. “Absent from Bill C-38, which replaced the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act …
Mexico’s green party focuses more on money than environment – Miami Herald
“We have to be objective. It’s not that they are all bad,” said Gustavo Alanis Ortega, the head of the Mexican Environmental Law Center, adding that some legislators had helped with laws on climate change. Yet even though the Ecologist … Continue reading
