The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley law barring destruction of objects in a criminal probe applies to a fisherman accused of tossing…
A former commercial real estate lawyer-turned environmental activist who came up with a novel legal theory to slow and stymie the advancement of fracking in New York has won the…
In what is believed to be the first jury verdict finding damages from fracking, a Texas family has been awarded $2.95 million from a natural gas company that drilled 20…
Transportation officials in Maryland are racing against the clock and Mother Nature as they struggle to remove an osprey nest that has repeatedly been constructed on an elevated platform directly…
In the latest salvo in a hard-fought international environmental case, a federal judge in New York has OK’d a request by Chevron Corp. to sue a law firm representing the…
The former owner of a Youngstown, Ohio, oil-and-gas drilling business who ordered an employee to pump tens of thousands of gallons of fracking waste into a river pleaded guilty today…
Michiganders may once again be able to own wild boars after a trial judge’s ruling Monday that found a law banning “exotic swine breeds” to be unconstitutional.
In the latest blow to the plaintiffs and their lawyers in hard-fought litigation against Chevron Corp. over environmental damage in Ecuador, a federal district court judge in New York has…
Peter Masaitis says law firms looking for ways to be environmentally responsible with paper are often pleasantly surprised at cost savings. Photo by Sal Owen.
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