Environmental Law

and warned the move to reduce more than 10,000 pages of regulations to help businesses comply with environmental laws should not throw out sensible rules “in a desperate dash for growth.” Ministers also appeared to be putting little priority on … Continue reading →

An Iowa garbage hauler has failed to pay more than $30 million in taxes, while abandoning injured workers, skirting environmental laws and allegedly undercutting competitors, court records and interviews with government officials show.

Vale SA (VALE3), the world’s largest iron-ore producer, is poised to lose market share to Australian rivals Rio Tinto Plc (RIO) and BHP Billiton Ltd (BHP) as Brazil imposes stricter environmental rules on new mining projects and labor costs soar.

The Environmental Law & Policy Center’s Solar and Wind Energy Supply Chain report shows that Michigan is home to 241 clean energy businesses – including Dowding Industries, Patriot Solar Group and Hemlock Semiconductor – and 10,000 related jobs.

ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners Save Our Shoreline are pushing for a change to the Water Pollution Law to allow them and other campaigners to challenge discharge permits in court. The permits allow people and organisations to release liquids into the sea or … Continue reading →

The state environmental commission granted the permit in 2010 despite an administrative law judge’s recommendation that further tests be conducted to determine whether mining could cause contaminants to seep through a fault line and into an …

Some of those chemicals are toxic and the state, as well as environmental groups, homeowners and even city and township governments want to know what they are. Matt Watson, senior energy policy manager for the national Environmental Defense Fund …

Michael Byers, a UBC professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law, argues that Canada’s “disregard for the environmental impacts of developing and selling its oilsands to China” could eventually expose the narrow …

Within the EU, so far only Germany has come up with legislation to earmark ETS cash – which derives from utilities and heavy industry, as well as airlines – for environmental purposes. The funds associated with the law requiring all … Continue reading →

Godwin’s Law, which states the first person in a political argument … The thriller writer Tom Clancy, in his novel “Rainbow Six,” postulated a group of environmental terrorists who wanted to achieve Linkola’s dream of a smaller, less technologically …