A federal panel of judges has decided that litigation concerning the massive undersea BP PLC oil spill that began in April will be heard by a federal judge in New…
As a foster child growing up in Portland, Ore., in the 1930s, on farms and in an orphanage, Eugene Anderson must have seemed an unlikely prospect for success as a…
Things have gone from bad to worse for an environmental and land use lawyer whose client complained to the Florida Bar that the attorney had taken $2,500 he wasn’t entitled…
A federal appeals court has ruled against the Obama administration in its attempt to immediately reinstate a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling.
A federal judge in New Orleans has blocked the Obama administration’s effort to ban deepwater offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico for six months in the wake of the…
Criminal fines against BP for violations of environmental laws for the Gulf oil spill could boost the company’s legal costs to $62.9 billion, a legal analyst says.
Evidence about the population of the giant Palouse earthworm is limited and inconclusive, according to a federal appeals court. There has been no well-designed study about its population, and no…
A federal judge has ruled that a 159-year-old maritime law limiting liability doesn’t apply to most lawsuits filed under federal and state environmental laws against the owner of the BP…
Government investigators, lawsuits and a law firm’s internal investigation have reportedly alleged an ongoing series of issues with maintenance and noncompliance with regulatory requirements at BP facilities in various United…
More than 25 years after 7,000 people died from a toxic gas leak at a Union Carbide Corp. pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, and many more were injured, a court…
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