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16 Dec 2010, 8:33 am
Attorney General Eric Holder announced the civil lawsuit stating in part “[t]he United States has sustained, and will continue to sustain significant costs and damages” and it “seeks in this action the imposition of Clean Water Act civil penalties for each barrel of oil that the defendants discharged into the Gulf of Mexico. [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 8:32 pm by David Doniger
  All of these actions are important and long-overdue steps towards protecting our health and the environment from the dangers of global warming pollution, under the Supreme Court’s landmark 2007 decision in Massachusetts v. [read post]
12 Jul 2007, 9:58 am
EPA helps to create a more fertile environment for state action on climate change. [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 9:27 am by Steven M. Taber
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Monday, July 26, 2010, in State of North Carolina v. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 7:56 am by David Doniger
  The Court also noted that the EPA is finally moving towards action on power plants, noting the settlement of another case (New York v. [read post]
11 Sep 2013, 6:37 am by Joy Waltemath
An employee who alleged that in the five months after she injured her knee at work her employer took her picture and stalked her as she attempted to work and threatened to fire her if she did not climb a ladder to replace light bulbs sufficiently stated a hostile work environment claim, a federal district court in Maryland ruled (Teasdell v Baltimore County Board of Education, September 6, 2013, Quarles, W, Jr). [read post]
10 Aug 2016, 2:00 am by Anthony B. Cavender
At the outset, however, the Court of Appeals considered, and rejected, the arguments the states made that the Court of Appeals was without jurisdiction to review these petitions, particularly concerning those state actions assessing the water quality impacts of this pipeline expansion under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act (CWA). [read post]
20 Sep 2010, 5:21 am
In a decision that may create a significant roadblock for companies saddled with environmental clean-up liability to continue as a going concern, the Seventh Circuit in U.S. v. [read post]