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Ban Sought On Gene-Altered Crops On Federal Land
Posted on 18 Aug 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - (AP) Three environmental groups filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to stop the planting of genetically-modified crops on 44,000 acres of federal land in the South, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the corn, milo and rice provide... Read More

Tags: glyphosate , herbicide , Roundup , rice , Center for Food Safety , environment , Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility , Litigation , U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service , Monsanto , lawsuit , genetically modified crops , migrating birds

Feds Sued For Backing Off Fast-Track Drilling
Posted on 29 Oct 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - (AP) A petroleum industry group has filed a lawsuit saying federal land managers lacked authority to stop fast-track approval of oil and gas drilling on public land in the West. The Western Energy Alliance filed the lawsuit on Oct. 21... Read More

Tags: Interior Department , petroleum industry , Government Accountability Office , drilling , Wyoming , U.S. Bureau of Land Management , public land , Bob Abbey , Ken Salazar , Kendra Barkoff , Rocky Mountain West , environment , oil , Kathleen Sgamma , Western Energy Alliance , Litigation , Thomas Tidwell , the Pinedale Field Office , lawsuit , Bruce Pendery , U.S. Forest Service , BLM , gas , Wyoming Outdoor Council

Judge Halts Any Ecuadorean Pollution Award Against Chevron
Posted on 10 Feb 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW YORK - (AP) A federal judge took the unusual step Tuesday of blocking a potential multi-billion-dollar judgment against Chevron Corp. for environmental damage in Ecuador for at least 28 days after concluding that lawyers representing 30,000 Ecuadoreans... Read More

Tags: New York , Ecuador , Elsen , Lewis A. Kaplan , Judgment , environment , environmental damage , oil , Litigation , Mastro , lawsuit , Chevron

Environmental Group Sues Interior Over Wyoming Coal Leasing
Posted on 22 Apr 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – (AP) An environmental group is suing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to try to get the government to increase its regulation of mining in the nation's top coal-producing region. The lawsuit filed by WildEarth Guardians in U.S... Read More

Tags: Interior Department , coal leases , Ken Salazar , WildEarth Guardians , environment , Litigation , lawsuit , mining

Mo. Hog Company Says It Has Resolved Odor Issue
Posted on 26 Aug 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

KANSAS CITY Mo. - (AP) Missouri pork giant Premium Standard Farms's plan to install new technology that will prevent odors from its hog confinements from polluting the air outside its farms violates a previously set deadline and the company should... Read More

Tags: Missouri , lawsuits , Jay Nixon , hog farm , pollution , odors , environment , PSF , Premium Standard Farms , Litigation , Jean Paul Bradshaw

Environment Groups File Lawsuit Over Natural Gas Drilling Regulations
Posted on 6 Aug 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW YORK - (AP) Environmental groups filed a lawsuit Thursday in New York City to force federal officials to conduct an environmental review before issuing final regulations on natural gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin because of concerns over... Read More

Tags: New York , drilling , National Parks Conservation Association , Natural gas , environment , Riverkeeper , Litigation , lawsuit , New York attorney general , Marcellus Shale

Gulf Waste Heads To Landfills, Some With Problems
Posted on 25 Aug 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW ORLEANS - (AP) The cleanup of history's worst peacetime oil spill is generating thousands of tons of oil-soaked debris that is ending up in local landfills, some of which were already dealing with environmental concerns. The soft, absorbent boom... Read More

Tags: Gulf Oil spill , Republic Services Inc. , pollution , Chastang Landfill , Magnolia Landfill , liner , Florida Panhandle , Gulf , waste management , oil spill , Environmental Protection Agency , Deepwater Horizon , Conrad Volz , environment , National Research Council , Tufts University , oil , Litigation , Kurt Pennell , lawsuit , Lake Pontchartrain , Heritage Environmental Services , Colonial Landfill , University of Pittsburgh's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health , BP , waste , Gulf of Mexico , EPA , crude , Mathy Stanislaus , landfill

Residents, Environmental Groups Sue Maryland Steel Mill
Posted on 13 Jul 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

BALTIMORE - (AP) Sparrows Point residents have joined two environmental groups in suing the owners of a century-old steel mill. The lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore targets Severstal North America, the current operator of the steel... Read More

Tags: pollution , Severstal North America , ArcelorMittal , environment , Litigation , lawsuit , Baltimore , Sparrows Point , steel mill

Judge Halts Oil, Gas Development On Chukchi Sea
Posted on 22 Jul 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - (AP) A federal judge on Wednesday stopped companies from developing oil and gas wells on billions of dollars in leases off Alaska's northwest coast, saying the federal government failed to follow environmental law before it sold... Read More

Tags: Sean Parnell , Inupiat Eskimo , Chukchi Sea , Royal Dutch Shell , Earthjustice , Judge Ralph Beistline , MMS , Native Village of Point Hope , Alaska , Center for Biological Diversity , environment , Obama , Minerals Management Service , oil , wells , Litigation , Caroline Cannon , Shell Gulf of Mexico , lawsuit , offshore drilling , gas , Gulf of Mexico , Arctic Ocean