The State of Alaska has asked to intervene in a lawsuit that environmental groups filed last May against the Trump administration for possibly opening the Beaufort and Chukchi seas to offshore oil and natural gas leasing. The state filed a motion on Thursday In U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska to intervene in support of an executive order (EO) Trump signed last April. The EO …
Actress Daryl Hannah (C) joins protesters with Americans Against Fracking during a noon time protest in front of the White House in Washington, August 22, 2013. The group is urging U.S. President Barack Obama to ban hydraulic fracturing on public lands. (REUTERS/Larry Downing) Enviro Lawsuit Effectivly Bans Fracking In 1 Million Acres Of California The federal government effectively banned …
The Trump administration has not yet released concrete details to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but it already faces the first of what could be a litany of lawsuits against the president’s signature proposal. The Center for Biological Diversity, a Tucson-based conservation group, and U.S. Congressman Raul Grijalva, who represents a broad swath of the Arizona border, filed the suit on Wednesday in a Tucson federal court targeting the environmental and fiscal impact of building a nearly 2,000-mile border wall. …
Forty California residents are suing chemical giant Monsanto, alleging that exposure to the company’s Roundup weed killer caused them to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The complaint, filed in Alameda County Superior Court, seeks compensatory and punitive damages from defendants Monsanto Co. and Willbur Ellis Company, LLC., for wrongful death and personal injuries. In the lawsuit, which …
SEATTLE (AP) – BNSF Railway and seven environmental groups in Washington and Oregon have settled a lawsuit saying that coal spilled from trains pollutes waterways in Washington state. BNSF admits no wrongdoing in the settlement finalized Friday. The plaintiffs had argued that coal spilled from open-topped train cars is polluting the Columbia River and other waterways in the Pacific Northwest.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by environmental groups involving a wolf- and coyote-shooting contest in Idaho, as part of a settlement agreement that requires federal officials to notify the groups if another contest is planned. The agreement Wednesday follows several years of court skirmishes between the groups and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management involving Idaho for …
A firm poised to purchase the vacant Novartis campus for $18 million has filed a lawsuit claiming the deal has been stymied by pharmaceutical company’s refusal to allow aggressive environmental testing. A lawsuit filed Feb. 10 in state Supreme Court in New City by RS Old Mill LLC is …
The Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes have filed new lawsuits in yet another legal effort to stop a 1,172-mile, 570,000 barrel-per-day crude oil pipeline that skirts the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota within a half mile. Meanwhile, the pipeline company Energy Transfer Partners began drilling when the Army Corps of Engineers granted them an easement needed for construction …
Brewer, Attorneys and Counselors confirmed for WHNT News 19 a federal judge has denied their request for dismissal of a lawsuit against their client, 3M. The Tennessee Riverkeeper had filed the lawsuit back in 2016 against 3M, over the PFOA and PFOS contamination in the Tennessee River. …
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, walked back a legal fight to clean up rivers polluted by chicken manure after accepting tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions linked to the poultry industry, campaign and court records show. A report by the nonprofit Environmental Working Group …