A longtime Maryland judge accused of illegally dumping unauthorized materials along the shoreline of his waterfront home, in an apparent effort to build up a storm-damaged beachfront, has entered into…
The city attorney in Santa Fe, N.M., is investigating claims that wireless Internet signals are a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act because they can cause an allergic reaction.
Nuclear engineer-turned-lawyer Joseph R. Egan, the man who led Nevada’s legal campaign to block a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain, died of gastroesophageal cancer May 7. He was 53.
Updated: An unexpected February sighting of a wild wolverine in California, where the animal was thought to be extinct, has sparked a renewed, but unsuccessful, call for protection under the…
Updated: Their only crime was eating salmon. So execution, at least for now, is too harsh a punishment for up to 85 sea lions scheduled for extermination this year, in…
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled today that former EPA head Christine Todd Whitman cannot be held liable for saying that the air near the collapsed World…
Just in time for Earth Day 2008, a Gilroy, Calif.-based garlic-processing company has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought after the company let chunks of garlic spill…
Updated: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the Environmental Protection Agency may weigh costs and benefits when deciding how power plants should retrofit water intake systems to…
After years of posturing, a bankruptcy and recently heated negotiation, W.R. Grace & Co. has announced it will settle all 112,000 lawsuits filed on behalf of individuals sickened or killed…
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have sued the Environmental Protection Agency in an effort to force regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s two New Jersey-born justices dissented in a ruling yesterday that favored rival Delaware in a dispute over the building of a liquefied…
Two men claim in a lawsuit filed in Hawaii that a Swiss particle accelerator could produce a black hole and swallow the Earth. They seek an injunction blocking the project.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected New Jersey’s claim that it has sole authority to control construction projects along its side of the Delaware River.
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