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Environmental - August, 2013
334 articles
- 9th Circ. Says EPA Letters Trigger Pollution Coverage
- BP Claims Unfair Class Definition Sours $7.8B Deepwater Deal
- Calif. County's Drug Disposal Mandate Found Constitutional
- Enviros Lose Bid To Shut Down $1B Power Line Project
- Fla. Sens. Back $2.8M For Water Flow Improvement Projects
- Fracking Cos. Ask Colo. High Court To Allow Lone Pine Orders
- June Trial Date Proposed For Exxon Ark. Oil Spill Suit
- Pa. Rep. Seeks To Repeal Contested Pro-Fracking Zoning Law
- Engine Import Consultant Reaches $3.6M Air Pollution Deal
- Ohio Worker Pleads Guilty To Massive Fracking Waste Dump
- Dow Agrees To EPA Deal Over Colo. Superfund Site
- DOE Sinks $16M Into Hydrokinetic Projects
- Rainmaker Q&A: Carr Maloney's Jan Simonsen
- Are We On The Road To Superduperfund?
- Energy Dept. Proposes New Regs To Cut Bills By $28B
- Devil In Details As NY Mulls Record $5B Enviro Bond Debt
- Dallas City Council Rejects Fracking Permits On City Land
- NJ Court Rejects Town's Environmental Rezoning
- 5th Circ. Pulls Texas Justices Into Deepwater Insurance Row
- Comply With Your Air Permit And Be Sued Anyway
- 8th Circ. Tosses Land O' Lakes Cleanup Coverage Appeal
- Gas Drillers Likely To Exceed EPA Regs To Skip Pa. Permit
- China Halts New Energy Projects Over Pollution Violations
- ABB Hits U.S. Over $64M In CERCLA Response Costs
- EPA's Selenium Decision Will Transform Coal War
- EPA Escapes Cape Cod Nitrogen Pollution Suit
- Fla. DEP Enforcement Severely Stunted, Enviros Say
- LA Concealed Fault Line Info For $664M Project, Suit Says
- DOT Rule Would Hand Enviro Review Power To States
- Texas Appeals Court Upholds Houston Air Ordinance
- NY High Court Jumps Into Fight Over Local Fracking Bans
- Enbridge Gets OK To Replace 1st Segment Of Ind. Pipeline
- Texas Water Permit Fight May Foster More Takings Claims
- Enviros Say EPA Improperly Pulled Manure Monitoring Rule
- EPA Defends Rejection Of Texas Emissions Exception
- Sherwin-Williams To Pay $1.35M In Superfund Settlement
- Army Corps Awards Solar Contracts In $7B Renewables Push
- Groups To Appeal NJ Decision For LG Headquarters Building
- Fla. Tabs $90M For Everglades Bridge To Improve Water Flow
- Texas Doctors Want Pollution Rules Stiffened At Energy Plants
- BSEE, DOT To Track Offshore Drilling Disaster Near Misses
- 9th Circ. Keeps Calif. Shark Fin Ban In Place
- Texas Justices Asked To Revive $17M Drilling Ban Award
- Conservation Easement Bars Pa. Shale Fracking, Judge Says
- ConocoPhillips Tops High Bidders In Western Gulf Lease Sale
- Chinese Subsidies Boosted Solar Cos., EU Finds
- BP Move To Stop Spill Settlement Fund Payments Denied
- EPA Agrees To Take Action On Ariz. Soot Plan In CAA Suit
- Enviros Sue To Block GMO Crops On Federal Wildlife Refuges
- EPA Removes Chemical From Volatile Organic Compound List
- DOE Names New Oil-Gas, Clean Coal Research Chiefs
- Critical Habitat Rule Will Handcuff Property Owners
- Ex-BP Engineer Says Obstruction Charges In Spill Lack Proof
- Pa. Regulators Won't Stay Seneca Gas Well Permit Appeal
- The Spotlight Is Now On Soil Vapor Intrusion
- Sierra Club Seeks To Force EPA's Hand On SO2 Standards
- Calif. Appeals Court Says Challenge To Water Project Moot
- Calif. Appeals Court Affirms SF Win In Waterfront Project Row
- Alaska City Beats FCA Suit Over $1M In EPA Grants
- Entergy To Shutter Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant
- Pa. DEP Gets Initial OK On Oil, Gas Surface Operation Rules
- JA Solar Targets Eastern China In 300-MW Development Push
- Vitter Demands Probe Into EPA Theft Allegations
- French Court Lifts Nationwide Ban On Daimler Vehicles
- Deals Rumor Mill: KKR, Abramovich, Suntech
- PPL, Enviros Spar Over $247M Pa. Power Line Project
- Troutman Sanders Snags Enviro Pro From Hunton & Williams
- Chemical Supplier Can't Choose Counsel, Calif. Court Says
- Army Corps Contractor's Pricing Didn't Violate FCA: Judge
- Oil Spill Class Wants BP To Keep Paying Claims
- US Urges Fed. Circ. To Affirm Calif. Water Ruling
- Vinmar VP Fired For Challenging False EPA Report, Suit Says
- EPA Mandates Digital Switch For Toxic Release Forms
- BP, Anadarko Fight Deepwater CWA Claims In 5th Circ.
- Climate Plan Isn't A War On Fossil Fuels, DOE Chief Says
- Fracking Earthquake Claims Bank On Uncertain Science
- GE Unit-Led Partnership Buys 50-MW Canadian Solar Plants
- Enviro Group Challenge To Ky. Mining Permits Nixed By Judge
- LaGuardia Landfill Is A Bird Hazard To Air Traffic, Suit Says
- Siemens Installs Wind Power Link After Year Of Delays
- McDermott Lands EPA Air Emissions Enforcement Vet
- Exxon To Pay $2.4M Over Leaks At La. Facilities
- Keep Watch Of Endangered Salamander Rules In Texas
- Rainmaker Q&A: Bilzin Sumberg's Scott Baena
- Lost Opportunities: Why Cases Settle At The Wrong Time
- EPA Must Revisit Sewage Incinerator Rule, DC Circ. Says
- Former EPA Official Accused Of $900K Government Theft
- NJ Regulator Accused Of Conspiracy To Seize Landfill
- NJ Appeals Court Hands Oil Co. Mixed Ruling In Enviro Suit
- Texas High Court Blocks Waco From Challenging Water Permit
- DOI, DOE To Team Up On Offshore Drilling Safety
- EPA Floats $17M Cleanup Plan For NJ Superfund Site
- Enviros Sue To Block Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Project
- Gunster Snags Fla. DEP Atty In Tallahassee Office
- 3rd Circ. Ruling Gives Courts Broad Air Permit Powers
- FTC To Probe Oil Industry Over Renewable Fuels Competition
- Big West, EPA Strike $18M Deal In Utah Refinery Action
- Gov't Faces Pressure From All Sides To Alter Fracking Rule
- Keystone Conflict Report Won't Be Ready Until January
- Chevron Gets Access To More Email Data In Ecuador Row
- Brazil Energy Auction To Spur 66 New Wind Projects
- DC Circ. Urged To Revive Challenge To Coal Lease Sales
- NY Bill Would Allow State To Issue $5B In Enviro Project Debt
- Enviro Groups Booted From Alpha Selenium Suit
- Financing Chinese Petrochemical Projects — Sponsor's Take
- DC Circ. Takes Rare Step To Grant Mandamus
- EPA Faces Challenge To Wood Heater Emissions Rule
- Patton Boggs Managing Partner Jumps to Morgan Lewis
- Ecuador's $4B Failure Cripples Climate Strategy's Prospects
- Jordan Approves Plans For 1st Nuclear Reactor
- Seneca, NFG Midstream Attack Pa. Gas Facility Designation
- Regs, Gas Prices To Shutter 60 GW Of Coal Power: Study
- Army Corps Eases Flows From Fla.'s Lake Okeechobee
- Sierra Club Slams Proposed LNG Port Off NJ, NY Coasts
- Okla. AG Wants En Banc Review Of EPA Haze Rule
- DOJ Drops Key Prosecutors From Deepwater Obstruction Case
- NY City Planning OKs 3 Major Queens Developments
- AK Steel Pays $4M Over CAA Violations At Coke Plant
- Babcock Signals Big Change In Pa. Duty-To-Defend Law
- SunEdison To Spin Off Semiconductor Biz In IPO
- GE Reaches Deal With NJ Over Landfill Discharges
- US Fracking Rules A Must, Former DOI Secretary Salazar Says
- NJ City Utility Escapes Ex-Worker's Toxic Tort Appeal Bid
- PG&E Ordered To Explain Calif. Pipeline Safety Filing
- Landowner Can't Bar Keystone From Repairing Pipeline
- $1B Utility Line Needs More Gov't Review, Lawmakers Say
- Texas Coal Plant Permit Fight Dropped Amid Finance Woes
- Contractor To Blame For Fatal Black Elk Rig Blast: Report
- W.Va. DEP Says Current Fracking Air Pollution Rules OK
- BSEE Rule Toughens Offshore Oil Production System Regs
- Pa. DEP Slaps MarkWest Gas Plant With Smoke Violation
- 3rd Circ. Frees Pa. Coal Plant Operators From CAA Suit
- Lawmakers Prod White House For Social Cost Of Carbon Info
- Ill. Regs OK Landmark $1B Ameren Transmission Line
- Biofuel Producer Slammed With Investor Suit
- Ex-BP Engineer Can't Hide Deepwater Meeting From Trial
- 6th Circ. Revives CAA Suit Over Airport's $103M Funding
- DOJ, FTC Urged To Launch Antitrust Probe Of Oil Industry
- Chocolate Maker Faces $3M Clean Air Act Permit Suit
- Brookfield Closes On $1B For Global Timber Fund
- Lawmaker Says Bag Fee Would Remind NYC To Conserve
- Fort Lauderdale OKs $250M Project On Historic Tree Site
- Rainmaker Q&A: Dickinson Wright's Harlan Robins
- Dumpster Diving For Deleted Files: When Is It Worth It?
- NJ Gov. Vetoes Environmental Oversight Bill For Private Wells
- Synagro's Ch 11. Plan, $480M Buyout Gets Judge's Nod
- Fracking Gag Orders For Kids Go Too Far
- DOI Tells Fed. Circ. New Drilling Regs Didn't Breach Lease
- Calif. Gov. Says Judge's Ruling Won't Derail $68B Bullet Train
- Enviros Want Construction Halted On $1B Power Line
- Key Energy Legislation To Watch This Fall
- Feds Owe Fla. $1.6B For Enviro Projects, Gov. Scott Says
- Indian Point Unit Can Operate During NRC License Review
- Wash. Wind Farm To Buy Siemens Turbines
- 3rd Circ. Says CAA Doesn't Preempt State Pollution Claims
- CERCLA Contribution Possible Under State Claims: 3rd Circ.
- Enviros Cheer NJ Gov.'s Veto Of Pier Development Bill
- US Urges Fed. Circ. To Uphold CIT Decision On Wind Towers
- US Beats Another Enviro Suit Over $2.2B Mojave Solar Plant
- EPA Delays Formaldehyde Wood Emissions Rule
- Calif. Clears The Air For Significance Thresholds
- Australian Appeals Court Shoots Down $40B LNG Project
- NJ Senate Passes Delayed Tax Incentive Bill
- Coal Exports Emerge As Battleground In Climate Change Fight
- Chevron, Others Sued Over Oilfield Waste Disposal
- NJ Gov. Christie Conditionally Vetoes Forestry Bill
- NC Hits Duke Units With Water Contamination Suits
- DuPont Dam Oversight Caused Irene Flooding, Suit Says
- Texas' Water Rights May Be Endangered
- A Win For Prop 65 Defendants, Lessons For All
- Ore. Ups The Ante For Insurers Facing Enviro Claims
- Oil Co. Gets $24M From Insurer In Katrina Coverage Row
- EPA Shoots Down Enbridge Oil Spill Cleanup Extension Bid
- Luminant Hit With EPA Clean Air Suit Over Coal Plants
- New Zealand Walks Back Ambitious Carbon Reduction Target
- More Info Needed To Limit Keystone's Enviro Impact, DOI Says
- Jorgensen Demands Coverage For Wash. Superfund Cleanup
- Girardi Keese Beats Class Cert. In Lockheed Malpractice Suit
- BLM To Auction Rocky Mountains Land For Solar Projects
- Duke Energy Acquires 4.5-MW Solar Project In San Francisco
- EPA Launches Effort To Revamp Fuel Economy Labeling
- Pa. High Court Asked To Nix Rehearing Of Fracking Law Case
- Climate Action Plan: A Boon For Landowners
- Bankrupt Synagro Lowballed $4M Claim, Conn. City Says
- Exide, EPA Settle Differences Over Planned Asset Sales
- 9th Circ. Says Shell Project Doesn't Need Air Quality Review
- EPA Issues New Labels For Pesticides Linked To Bee Deaths
- DOE Wants Input On Social Cost Of Carbon Challenge
- NY Utility Sues Insurers For Coverage Of Pollution At 22 Sites
- Boeing Ducks Suits Claiming Plant Emissions Caused Cancer
- Ind. Utility Gets OK For $511M Enviro Upgrades To Plants
- EPA Can't Shake Suit Seeking Broad Access To Email Records
- BP Fights Investors' Class Cert. Bid In Deepwater Row
- EPA Backs New Industry Standard For CERCLA Assessments
- A Primer On Lab Analyses Of Environmental Samples
- DOD Closes Open-Air Burn Pits At Key Afghanistan Base
- Coal Power Giving Way To Gas In Pa. As Enviro Rules Tighten
- Calif. Shark Fin Ban Will Hurt Merchants, 9th Circ. Hears
- Ind. Justice Refuses To Step Down From Gas Contract Case
- The Cost, And Ethics, Of Doing (Legal) Business
- Climate Risks Drive Investors Away From Carbon
- 2nd Circ. Won't Let Vt. Shutter Entergy Nuclear Plant
- DOI Focuses On Public Lands In Renewable Energy Push
- Calif. Appeals Court Nixes Wal-Mart Expansion Challenge
- Ex-Navistar Exec Launches Suit Over Scrapped Enviro Engines
- Nev. Tribe Forms JV To Build 1.5GW In Renewable Projects
- BP Wants Halliburton's Plea Deal In Deepwater MDL Record
- St. Paul Settles Coverage Fight Over Toxic Waste Case
- Elon Musk's Hyperloop Would Hit CEQA Speed Bumps
- SF Air Rules Don't Need Enviro Report, Appeals Court Finds
- EPA Balks At Bankrupt Exide's Proposal To Shed Assets
- Fired BP Claims Atty Fights For Reinstatement
- NJ Enviro Groups Lobby To Intervene In $4B PSE&G Proposal
- EPA Failed To Protect Fla. Waterways, Group Claims
- Fla. Gov. Plans To Sue Ga. Over Water Consumption
- Gov't Flooding Threatens Endangered Sparrow, Suit Says
- Utility Seeks Go-Ahead To Build 150-MW Wind Farm In ND
- Ikea To Buy Irish Wind Farm In $2.3B Clean Energy Push
- AIG Unit Again Faces Bad Faith Claim In $69M Wildfire Row
- How Calif. Wrongly Decided Ceres V. Stanislaus County
- BOEM Gives Enviro Approval To 1st Hydrokinetic Project
- Electric Car Charging Co. Ecotality Eyes Bankruptcy
- BP Sues EPA Over Federal Contracting Ban
- Enviros Sue Feds Over Logging Plan's Wildlife Risks
- EPA Nixes Industry Challenge To Biofuel Diesel Standard
- Steptoe Lures 5 Energy, Enviro Attys From Jackson Kelly
- Fate Of Fla. Keys Developers Hinges On Takings Appeals
- NYC Hands Over $12M To Settle Bronx Landfill Cancer Suit
- Whistleblower Must Pay Disney's Fees In $1B Pollution Suit
- Pa. Rep. Seeks To Repeal New Gas Lease-Pooling Law
- Blackstone's Sithe Pulls Out Of $835M Guyana Hydro Project
- 9th Circ. Stormwater Flip Should Catch High Court's Eye
- Coal Plant Modification Violated CAA, Sierra Club Says
- GenCorp Settles Suit Over Tennis Factory Pollution
- Pa. Town Sues Neighboring Town Over Permits In Landfill Tiff
- Debunking The Myth Of Hydraulic Fracturing
- JPML Won't Carve Out New MDL From BP Litigation
- Renewable Fuel Revisions No Panacea For Biofuel Projects
- NJ Court Upholds Approval For LG Headquarters
- Consol Mining Unit Hit With Water Contamination Suit
- Pa. City, Chemical Co. Can't Dodge River Pollution Suit
- USDA Immune From Blame For Cattle Deaths, 8th Circ. Says
- Dallas' Glass Buildings Face A Glaring Controversy
- House Committee Chair Won't Pull EPA Health Data Subpoena
- Tribe Sues To Stop 'Mega-Loads' Shipments In National Forest
- FERC Holds Fast To Solar Flare Rule For Grid Operators
- Break Out The Crystal Ball To Evaluate Your Project
- Ohio Objects To Kodak's Proposed Enviro Deal With NY
- EPA Carbon Authority Cemented By DC Circ. Ruling
- 5 Tips For Crafting An Airtight Settlement
- Pa. Fracking Wastewater Settlement Cuts Discharge Levels
- Oil Refiners, Others To Sue EPA Over Sulfur Dioxide Delay
- 9th Circ. Says LA Water Monitoring Can Prove CWA Breaches
- Pa. DEP Axes Emission Plan Exemptions For Fracking Wells
- MarkWest Can't Toss Evidence Ruling Over Pa. Plant Permit
- Rainmaker Q&A: Seyfarth's Gerald Maatman
- NJ Enviro Orgs Can't Intervene In $3.9B PSE&G Proposal
- NJ Lawmaker Urges Stricter Standards For Chemical Storage
- Municipality Can Amend Land Use Sans Preapproval: NJ Court
- BP Ordered To Fork Over $129M In Deepwater Claims Fees
- Exxon Defeat On Gas Additive Leaves Energy Cos. Vulnerable
- 4th Circ. Says Fed. Court Needn't Hear Exxon MTBE Suit
- Boxer Asks Senate To Protect EPA Coal Ash Oversight
- FirstEnergy Can't Recoup $43M For Ohio Renewables Buy
- Kodak Extends New Enviro Cleanup Proposal To NY
- US Sugar Loses Appeal Over Rock Mining Permit
- EU Continues Probe Over Chinese Solar Panel Subsidies
- Pa. Wants All 7 Justices To Rule In Key Fracking Case
- GE Takes First Solar Stake Under New Tech Partnership
- Chesapeake In Talks To Drop Some Embattled NY Gas Leases
- Sears, Kmart, Pilot Face Toxic Warning Suit Over Auto Kits
- House Dem Slams GOP Subpoena Of EPA Health Data
- States Again Urge High Court To Overturn EPA GHG Finding
- Lone Pine Orders Are Still Useful In Fracking Litigation
- World Bank Injects $340M Into African Hydropower Project
- Calif. Light Rail Ruling Makes For Thornier Enviro Reviews
- Manure Concerns Spur Enviro Suit Over $3.4M Hog Farm Loans
- Law Firms Push For Environmental Sustainability
- Litgo Liable For Most Of NJ Site Cleanup, 3rd Circ. Finds
- NY County Failed To Treat Water For Parasite, Suit Says
- Shell's Spill Response Plans Withstand Enviros' Challenge
- EPA Releases New Renewable Fuel Standard Requirements
- DOE Should Eye Climate Impact Of LNG Exports, Report Says
- Pa. DEP Shuts Down Gas Wastewater Facility After Spills
- EPA Finalizes Relaxed Emissions Rules For Oil, Gas Storage
- Barrick Hit With Another Suit Over $8.5B Chilean Mine
- EPA Agrees To Update Oil Refinery Emissions Rule By 2015
- NJ Settles Water Pollution Suit Against Oil Refiner
- Calif. Lawmakers To Take On Minimum Wage, CEQA Bills
- 6th Circ. OKs Atty Sanctions In Chevron Contamination Suit
- BP Renews Bid To Halt Deepwater Spill Payments
- Thermo Fisher Sues Hampshire Partners Over Toxic NJ Land
- Blue Earth Announces $20M Solar Projects Deal
- TCEQ Floats Updates To State Water Quality Standards
- Ind. Appeals Court Cuts Technicolor's Pollution Coverage
- Transocean Slams BP, Anadarko Bid To Avoid Spill Blame
- Neb. High Court Says Wind Tax Credit Is Constitutional
- Calif. High Court Denies Attempt To Halt Expo Line Extension
- Banks Back $112M Loan For Swedish Wind Project
- Pa. Landowners Say Range's Fracking Tainted Groundwater
- High Court Asked To Revisit CERCLA Cleanup Liability
- Chevron To Pay $2M To Calif. Town For Refinery Fire
- Japan's Marubeni Takes $132M Stake In Irish Renewables Co.
- President's Climate Change Action Plan: What Happens Now?
- Cooley Lands Ex-Foley & Lardner IP Pro
- Senators Seek $415M To Restore Lake Tahoe
- Calif. Court Voids County Limit On Solid Waste Imports
- GE Energy To Pour $42M Into Indian Hydro-Power Project
- Fracking By EOG, Shell Caused Damaging Tremors, Suit Says
- FERC Grants License To $39M Alaskan Hydro Project
- RG Steel To Settle With EPA For $20M In Allowed Claims
- Bipartisan Sens. Look To Revamp Hydropower Regulations
- House Votes To Give Congress Power Over Costly Regulations
- Disney On Verge Of Getting $1B FCA Enviro Suit Nixed
- Pa. Mine Operators Must Report Accidents To DEP: Judge
- Delta Fuels, Knight Pay $2.3M To End Gas Spill CWA Suit
- DOI Seeks Delay In Calif. Casino Land Row
- Calif. Water Group Settles $400M Desalination Project Row
- House Passes Energy Consumers Relief Act
- Enviros Score Big Win In Purchasing Doc Row With Mining Co.
- Enbridge Settles US Suit Over Minn. Pipeline Discharges
- Calif. Beats Insurer Defenses Over $99M Stringfellow Bill
- 2 Pa. Suits Dropped Over NJ Conrail Derailment
- Obama Orders Chemical Storage Revamp After Texas Blast
- EPA Aims To Save $29M A Year With CWA E-Reporting
- UK To Invest $100 Million For Offshore Wind Development
- Enviros Sue To Block Port Authority Bayonne Bridge Raising
- Chevron Settles EPA Suit Over Utah Refinery Emissions
- Bracewell Lands Environmental Regulations Pro In Houston
- TransCanada OKs $12B Crude Pipeline To Eastern Canada
- NYC Pols Have High Hopes For East River As Funding Rolls In
- BrightSource Snags Pair Of Chinese Solar Contracts
- Noteworthy Changes To Wash. Model Toxics Control Act
- Rainmaker Q&A: McKenna Long's Thomas Lemmer