Air and water under threat as SCOTUS takes aim at environmental laws
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on January 25, 2022. It is shared here with permission under a Creative...
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Bill would relax environmental laws for conventional drillers
Republican lawmakers said the amendment was offered as a compromise to Democrats, to gain support for the bill and help...
Bill presented to governor would relax environmental laws for conventional drillers
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Enforcement of environmental laws is the key to environmental justice
Now that the nation's attention is on racial justice, the administrator of the Environmental and Protection Agency (EPA) Andrew WheelerAndrew...
The disappearance of the federal role in the application of our environmental laws
The Trump administration has downgraded environmental enforcement, favoring polluters over the interests of citizens.The number of inspections undertaken and enforcement...
Environmental laws could face new hurdles at Supreme Court with Barrett
Kavanaugh, for example, criticized the Clean Air Act, calling it "thin legislation" in a 2016 case involving the Clean Power...
How a more conservative Supreme Court could impact environmental laws
As Judge Amy Coney Barrett is set to become the sixth Republican-appointed judge to the nation's highest court, environmental law...
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Trump administration stops enforcing environmental laws in the age of coronavirus
The Environmental Protection Agency this week waived enforcement of many of its health and environmental safeguards, offering what the agency...
Court orders two Massachusetts companies to comply with environmental laws and pay $1.3 million in fines
October 29, 2019 BOSTON – The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts recently ordered RM Packer Company, Inc....
Government can waive environmental laws to build border wall prototypes, court rules: NPR
US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen speaks in front of a new fortified border wall structure in Calexico,...
EPA finds Wisconsin barrel factories violate environmental laws
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that a chain of industrial renovation factories in the Milwaukee area violated federal...
Reviews | Let’s modernize our environmental laws
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled tough new smog regulations, and it's clear the agency has the legal power...
Top Stories – When companies break environmental laws, why aren’t the individuals responsible prosecuted? – AllGov
Tens of thousands of companies have been caught polluting the air, water or soil, but the federal government rarely prosecutes...