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California Wins Emissions Battle with Automakers
Environmental 12/12/2007California won a major legal battle Wednesday in its fight to implement a global-warming law that would lead to steep increases in motor vehicle fuel economy. A federal judge in Fresno tossed out a lawsuit filed by the world's major automakers that t...
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Nixon Peabody Names First Sustainability Officer
Environmental 11/14/2007The Legal Newswire - International law firm Nixon Peabody LLP announces the appointment of a Chief Sustainability Officer. Carolyn S. Kaplan, an attorney in the firm’s energy and environmental practice, will serve in the new role. Nixon Peabody is th...
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California to Sue Over Auto Emissions
Environmental 10/23/2007[##_1L|1048905051.jpg|width="90" height="119" alt=""|_##]The state's attorney general said Monday that he would sue the Environmental Protection Agency in an attempt to force it to decide whether to let California and 11 other states impose stricter ...
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America Pipeline Company Pleads Guilty
Environmental 09/05/2007[##_1L|1201928483.jpg|width="180" height="128" alt=""|_##]America Pipeline Company has pleaded guilty to negligently releasing about 200,000 gallons of ammonia into a Kansas creek. Authorities say the incident resulted in the killing of more than 25,...
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Court blocks Navy sonar use to protect whales
Environmental 08/07/2007[##_1L|1136253651.jpg|width="127" height="85" alt=""|_##]A federal court issued an injunction on Monday blocking the Navy from using a type of sonar that wildlife supporters say harms whales in exercises off the California coast. The preliminary inju...
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Court narrows law environmental protection law
Environmental 07/26/2007[##_1L|1051337674.jpg|width="130" height="130" alt=""|_##]The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday put limits on a long-standing state law that allows Michigan citizens to sue over drilling, dredging and development they think would hurt the state's e...
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US court suspends Shell Beaufort Sea oil drilling
Environmental 07/20/2007U.S. federal appeals court has ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plc to suspend drilling operations on offshore oil blocks in the Beaufort Sea off the north coast of Alaska pending a legal challenge being brought by environmental activists and Alaska Native ...
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U.S. adopts limits on clean water law enforcement
Environmental 06/07/2007[##_1L|1106075551.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]The landmark U.S. law to fight water pollution will now apply only to bodies of water large enough for boats to use, and their adjacent wetlands, and will not automatically protect streams, th...
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Supreme Court may Decide Contamination Case
Environmental 06/06/2007A high-stakes legal battle over a century of smelter contamination dumped into the Columbia River by a Canadian mining and smelting giant may be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.The court issued an order today inviting the U.S. Solicitor General – t...
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US opens to global emissions-cutting goal
Environmental 05/31/2007[##_1L|1207075775.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]The United States will work with other nations in seeking a global goal for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, President George W Bush said Thursday. Bush, in a speech looking ahead to next mon...
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Schwarzenegger's deals distract from global warming
Environmental 05/29/2007[##_1L|1364031784.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]Since he made California the first state to limit greenhouse gases, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been signing agreements with other state and foreign governments to address global warming. He...
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Scientists criticize UN climate report for being too soft
Environmental 04/07/2007[##_1L|1338168269.jpg|width="100" height="125" alt=""|_##]Scientists criticized the UN global warming report for being too soft as a result of pressure by some governments, it was reported on Saturday. The study findings were watered down at the last...