Mulling the fate of two lawsuits seeking to hold Big Oil liable for climate change, a federal judge said Thursday he cannot punish oil companies for producing planet-warming fossil fuels without also considering the benefits of oil and gas.
Read moreRice grown in an environment with higher concentrations of carbon dioxide has fewer nutrients, according to research started by the University of Tokyo.
Read moreA new casino headed to the Mystic River area took shape Thursday as Wynn Resorts touted its completion of a $68 million pollution cleanup.
Read moreA federal jury agreed on Thursday that fertilizer imported to California in the 1930s and 1940s was responsible for contaminants found in groundwater wells in recent years but did not award damages to the city who sued a North American subsidiary of a Chilean chemical company who manufactured the product.
Read moreAttorneys made their closing arguments Wednesday in a case where the city of Pomona claims that a Chilean chemical company “poisoned” its groundwater over the course of decades, costing millions in cleanup costs.
Read moreEnvironmental groups challenged the Trump administration in federal court Wednesday over its rejection of an Obama-era proposal that would have required mining companies to prove they have enough money to clean up their pollution.
Read moreJurors in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles were given the fundamentals on South American mining, citrus orchards in California and water testing Friday in a case involving a California city who says their groundwater was contaminated due to “defectively designed fertilizer” imported to the United States around 1930.
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A Ford Motors expert on self-driving cars said Tuesday that the advent of autonomous vehicles could exacerbate traffic congestion and pollution unless the cars are electric and people share rides.
Read moreA Southern California city said defectively designed fertilizer used on citrus orchards from the 1930s through the 1950s contaminated its drinking water. In federal court this week, a jury will hear the city’s claims against the Chilean chemical company that imported the product.
Read moreThe most recent air pollution data from the World Health Organization gives India a dubious lead. The world’s ten most polluted cities are Indian.
Read moreA day after California declared legal war on the Environmental Protection Agency, the embattled federal agency announced it would send money to the Golden State to help it fight some of the worst air quality problems in the nation.
Read moreConservation groups filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday against Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke for leasing public lands to oil and gas developers without properly informing the public of the risks.
Read moreA federal jury on Thursday awarded more than $50 million in damages to neighbors of an industrial hog operation found responsible for intense smells, noise and other disturbances so bad people couldn’t enjoy their rural homes.
Read moreTo settle claims that its defeat-device scheme polluted Maryland, Volkswagen and its luxury affiliates Porsche and Audi reached a $33.5 million deal with the state Wednesday.
Read moreThe United States claims in a federal complaint that the C. Reiss Coal Co. refuses to install air pollution monitors at its plants in Green Bay, Wis., and Duluth, Minn.
Read moreEPA administrator Scott Pruitt proposed a new rule Tuesday which could change how scientific data is used by the agency to write public health regulations and could, in effect, remove a huge swath of peer reviewed studies on air pollution, pesticides and more from the agency’s record.
Read morePhotos of plastic clogging the world’s waterways and filling the stomachs of unfortunate sea birds and whales have become common in recent years, and on Tuesday the journal Nature Communications reported on an enormous buildup of frozen plastic particles trapped in Arctic sea ice.
Read moreSeveral already compromised rivers and creeks, and others “categorically off-limits to any type of pollution,” face an imminent threat, two watchdog groups claim in court, from the missteps of New York regulators.
Read moreRep. Donald McEachin, D-Va., joined clean-water advocates on Friday for a boat tour of Virginia’s James River to discuss their concerns over an Environmental Protection Agency plan to roll back regulations governing the safe disposal of coal ash.
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