A Supreme Court case scheduled for oral argument this month is likely to raise the profile of the Colorado-based group that will argue for a property owner’s rights, the Mountain…
Six families who moved into the Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls after a chemical cleanup have filed lawsuits claiming they suffered health consequences because the remediation was inadequate.
Having won an $18 billion environmental judgment against a deep-pockets corporate defendant after nearly two decades of litigation, attorney Steven Donziger, one might think, would be living high on the…
Updated: The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to consider the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases from power plants and other stationary sources.
A New Jersey couple has accepted a $1 settlement in their five-year-old lawsuit against the state over the building of a protective sand dune behind their beachfront home.
Finding that a 1,700-page federal environmental review put together by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management adequately considered the environmental risks and planned mitigation…
Eric Lemelson’s quest to build a livable home that meets stringent green-building certifications cost about $2 million and lasted through three years of construction.
Environmentalists in Oregon are doing their part to help the state battle invasive animal and plant species that do an estimated $120 billion in damage each year throughout the country.
Once upon a time, a clothesline was a standard feature of most back yards. But concern that publicly airing clean laundry attached with clothespins to a rope or wire was…
A Sacramento Superior Court judge has OK’d what is said to be the nation’s largest ever sale of water from farms to cities, granting the wish of farmers from California’s…
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