Environmental Law

DENVER – Lawyers for an environmental activist who disrupted an oil and gas … Backman said there are many ways to protest “but breaking the law is not one of them.” DeChristopher is asking the court to overturn his conviction.

“We are really ramping up efforts to directly enforce federal environmental laws.’’ The defendants in the suits filed in the US District Court for the State of Massachusetts are: Cody and Tobin Inc.’s scrap metal recycling facility in …

Scribe first reported that former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MI) is now lobbying for corporate and environmental interests on behalf of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, also known as the Law of the Sea Treaty … Continue reading →

Two Alpha Natural Resources Inc. subsidiaries are being sued by environmental groups who claim selenium discharges at a surface mine and a coal slurry impoundment in southern West Virginia have violated federal clean water and surface mining laws.

WASHINGTON – Critics took aim Tuesday at an effort by Tennessee lawmakers to change the Lacey Act, a century-old environmental law that came under fire after federal agents raided the facilities of Nashville-based Gibson Guitar last summer.

Ottawa wants to make sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental laws. The federal government says the aim of the changes, included in its so-called omnibus budget implementation bill, is to streamline the review process for major economic projects.

Many of the nation’s toughest environmental laws were passed in the late 1960′s and early 1970′s when it seems the American people first realized that there could be a limit to the natural resources at our disposal. Congress took action, … Continue reading →

SALT LAKE CITY – An environmental activist is asking a federal appeals … that causes me to feel under the sentencing laws before me that a term of imprisonment is required.” The two-year sentence was a year longer that the … Continue reading →

Deep-pocketed environmental groups are collecting millions of dollars from the federal agencies they regularly sue under a little-known federal law, and the government is not even keeping track of the payouts, according to two new studies.

James Inhofe will be introducing legislation on Wednesday to require that all regional administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency … people who are in this case not compliant with the law.” Shortly after his speech was made public, Armendariz …