GRASS VALLEY, Calif. (LN) — The Eastern District of California granted partial summary judgment against Rise Grass Valley, Inc., finding the company liable under the Clean Water Act for discharging pollutants from its flooded Idaho-Maryland Mine into Wolf C...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a settlement with Albertsons Safeway LLC, requiring the grocery chain to stop misting organic produce with synthetic pesticides across its Texas stores.
A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that Academy Express, LLC violated the Clean Air Act by idling buses beyond permissible limits, clarifying that stationary regeneration at random stops is not a necessary exception.
A federal judge in the Eastern District of California has narrowed a defendant’s attempt to depose a plaintiff environmental organization under Rule 30(b)(6), ruling that several topics sought premature expert testimony or improperly probed the group’s orga...
A federal court dismissed an environmental lawsuit challenging Sable Offshore Corp.'s Santa Barbara Channel operations, ruling that plaintiffs lacked standing because their asserted injury had no basis in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
A federal judge in Kansas ruled that the Kansas Products Liability Act’s latent disease exception does not apply to toxic emissions, allowing most claims in a class action against a chemical plant to proceed, while dismissing the claims of three named plain...
A federal judge in Oregon vacated the Bureau of Land Management’s approval of a logging plan, ruling the agency failed to adequately protect old-growth trees in Western Oregon’s Coast Range.
A federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s biological opinion on the pesticide malathion was arbitrary because it relied on flawed usage data and species range estimates, vacating key parts of the agency’s jeopardy and critical habitat...
Sunseeker International Limited and its U.S. subsidiary agreed to pay a $0.20 million fine and implement a compliance plan after admitting to importing yachts containing illegally harvested timber from Myanmar.
The Washington Court of Appeals held that environmental groups have standing to challenge the state Department of Natural Resources for failing to designate critical habitat for the western gray squirrel, reversing a trial court’s dismissal of their lawsuit.
A state appellate court rejected challenges to nitrogen and phosphorus discharge limits for a wastewater facility that had already pushed the Rogue River onto the EPA's impaired-waterways list.
A federal judge in West Virginia has vacated a Clean Water Act permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the Turkeyfoot Surface Mine, ruling that the agency acted arbitrarily and capriciously by ignoring scientific consensus and EPA concerns reg...
A divided Eleventh Circuit held that a state-funded, state-constructed immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades did not trigger the National Environmental Policy Act because the facility lacked the federal control and final agency action requi...
Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition and Cascadia Wildlands have been granted leave to intervene in the consolidated litigation challenging the construction of an immigration detention facility near the Newport Municipal Airport.
The Justice Department filed a civil complaint against the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority and the District of Columbia for Clean Water Act violations stemming from the collapse of the Potomac Interceptor, which released more than 200 million...
New York Attorney General Letitia James secured a settlement with Syracuse landlords Brian A. Murphy and Harry Murphy to address widespread lead hazards and unsafe housing conditions in their rental properties.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for John and Stacy Ambler, holding that the Flathead Conservation District cannot enforce Montana's Natural Streambed and Land Preservation Act of 1975 against land the couple owns inside Glacier National Park bec...
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong joined a 21-state coalition in filing a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's repeal of updated Mercury and Air Toxics Standards that limit dangerous emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants.
The justices unanimously rejected a federal appeals court ruling that had blocked Chevron and its co-defendants from transferring to federal court a lawsuit over decades of oil and gas activity along the Louisiana coast.