Illegal gold mining led to deforestation of thousands of hectares of forests inside indigenous reserves in the Brazilian Amazon, according to new satellite image analysis by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project.
Garfield and Mesa counties are among nine statewide that are jointly suing the state over new oil and gas air-quality rules that the counties say unfairly impact rural areas including western Colorado.
Brazil's federal environment agency last year gave out the fewest fines for breaking conservation laws since 1995, the agency's press office told Reuters on Monday.
A full decade after final arguments were completed in a federal lawsuit over northeastern Oklahoma water pollution, a decision may finally be rendered.
British hedge fund billionaire Chris Hohn has launched a campaign to persuade central banks to starve hundreds of planned coal-fired power plants around the world of finance, aiming to block the projects before they can pose a threat to the climate.
The case was the first in an advancing wave of litigation from U.S. farmers who blame drift-prone dicamba herbicides for millions of acres of crop damage in recent years.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it finished a regulatory review that found glyphosate, the most widely used weed killer in the United States, is not a carcinogen.
Standing next to the Flint River, you can watch as the dingy brown water rolls over a former dam downtown, creating a frothy foam that floats downstream. In 2014, state officials decided to use this murky water as Flint's drinking water source.
Japanese carmaker Mitsubishi is being probed by German prosecutors for suspected use of illegal defeat devices installed in its diesel engines, the Frankfurt prosecutor's office said on Tuesday.
What word shall we reach for to name what is happening? 'Ecocide', the killing of ecosystems, won't do. This is something more; this is the killing of everything. Omnicide.
It's been a busy year for energy companies and U.S. locales embroiled in litigation over climate change damages, but the end still isn't in sight for these cases.
It's been a whirlwind year in environmental law, and courtroom action is expected to accelerate in 2020 as President Trump closes out his term. Here are some of the past year's biggest developments.
On Dec. 10, Puget Soundkeeper reached a legal settlement to resolve a federal Clean Water Act case filed in September 2017 against LRI Landfill, a 168-acre, privately owned non-hazardous landfill.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says there's a tentative agreement with Wolverine Worldwide to repair residents’ water systems affected by PFAS contamination in northern Kent County.
Two communities — one in Canada, one in the U.S. — share both a border along the St. Marys River and a toxic legacy that has contributed to high rates of cancer. Now the towns are banding together to fight a ferrochrome plant.
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