By SABRINA CANFIELD
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - Mississippi and Alabama residents cannot sue the U.S. government over formaldehyde-laden trailers that the Federal Emergency Management Agency provided when Hurricane Katrina made thousands of homes uninhabitable, the 5th Circuit ruled.
By NICK MCCANN
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - The National Park Service did not properly study how horses and mules affect California's Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, a federal judge ruled.
By ADAM KLASFELD
MANHATTAN (CN) - After months of delay, the 2nd Circuit explained Thursday why it struck down a "radical" injunction that would block Ecuadorean natives from collecting an $18 billion environmental verdict against Chevron anywhere in the world.
By CHRIS FRY
(CN) - The 9th Circuit refused to "rubber stamp" the Environmental Protection Agency's approval of California's plan to clean up the air in San Joaquin Valley, finding that the agency ignored recent ozone emissions data.
By BARBARA LEONARD
(CN) - Federal law pre-empts California prohibitions on the slaughter of any animal that cannot stand or walk, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (CN) - The owner of an alligator hunting service was fined $14,000 after pleading guilty to a federal charge of transporting an illegally killed alligator.
By TIM HULL
(CN) - Federal regulators relied on outdated data in approving air-quality standards for California's San Joaquin Valley, the 9th Circuit ruled Friday.
By TIM HULL
(CN) - The 9th Circuit has shut down a Montana sulfur-recovery plant's long-running challenge to federal emissions standards.
By ADAM KLASFELD
MANHATTAN (CN) - The 2nd Circuit refused again to block indigenous Ecuadoreans from collecting on an $18.2 billion judgment against Chevron for a massive oil contamination in the Amazon.
By PURNA NEMANI
HONOLULU (CN) - Covering up the illegal dumping of oily waste into Hawaiian waters will cost a Korean shipping company $1.8 million, a federal judge ruled.
By DAN MCCUE
WASHINGTON (CN) - An Illinois-based engine manufacturer cannot force environmental regulators to recall allegedly more pollutant products made by its competitors, a federal judge ruled.
By SABRINA CANFIELD
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - A federal judge's order authorizing oil spill plaintiff attorneys to collect a 6 percent fee from payments made through the Gulf Coast Claims Facility has drawn bitter opposition from plaintiff attorneys and attorneys general.
By NICK MCCANN
PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) - The federal government withheld from the Audubon Society documents about government efforts to conserve the northern spotted owl, a federal judge found.
By SONYA ANGELICA DIEHN
(CN) - Italy is liable for a 15-year waste crisis that harmed citizens, Europe's human rights court ruled, agreeing with the European Union's top court.
By ADAM KLASFELD
MANHATTAN (CN) - The Ecuadorean government urged The Hague to let a group its natives collect an $18.2 billion judgment from Chevron to clean up an oil spill they call the "Amazon's Chernobyl."
By TIM HULL
(CN) - A federal judge has stopped three logging projects on National Forest lands in Arizona and New Mexico over concerns that they could harm the Mexican spotted owl.
By MARIA DINZEO
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - The 9th Circuit seems likely to let a ski resort use purified wastewater to put snow on Arizona's San Francisco Peaks, which many southwestern American Indian tribes consider sacred.
By WILLIAM DOTINGA
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A federal judge dismissed claims that the government violated environmental law by completely deregulating Monsanto's genetically engineered alfalfa seeds.
By ADAM KLASFELD
MANHATTAN (CN) - Chevron suffered two new setbacks in its bid to dodge liability for massive oil contamination in the Amazon, which an Ecuadoran appeals court has just affirmed will cost $18.2 billion to remediate.
By WILLIAM DOTINGA
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - The U.S. Navy's plan to increase sonar exercises in the next five years will harm marine mammals and violates the Endangered Species Act, environmentalists say.
By PURNA NEMANI
SEATTLE (CN) - Environmentalists claim one of the country's largest timber companies has dumped pollutants from its Washington-based sawmill into local waters for years, in violation of federal law and a state permit.
By MARIMER MATOS
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. (CN) - Foreign ship operators claim they have forked over more than $527,000 to cover four sailors' six-month detainment in Jacksonville, Fla. after the government initially detained the crewmembers on suspicion of polluting the port.
By SABRINA CANFIELD
HOUSTON (CN) - A Florida resort hotel says BP reneged on an agreement to pay $5 million for it to release all other claims for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
By IULIA FILIP
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (CN) - An environmentalist claims Tennessee Valley Authority police arrested him twice for reporting on the enormous 2008 Kingston coal ash spill.
By ERIN MCAULEY
(CN) - An Ohio golf club and property owner claim that while DuPont's Imprelis herbicide wiped out thousands of spruces and pines across the country, the manufacturer blamed the customers for the tree deaths, rather than the poison.
By SABRINA CANFIELD
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - A leader in BP's oil spill cleanup claims the company fired him for refusing to change data so that BP could claim the cleanup phase was over and it could begin restoration, which a BP vice president told him "would have an upward impact on BP stock prices."
By LISA BUCHMEIER
WAUKESHA, Wisc. (CN) - Spike, the "energy drink" maker, claims it paid - twice - to have nearly $1 million of its products destroyed, only to find out that the recycler was selling the goods on the sly.
AUSTIN (CN) - The Sierra Club claims the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality illegally gave four coal-fired power plants passes to pollute the air.
By CHRIS COUGHLIN
WASHINGTON (CN) - The National Marine Fisheries Service refused to list the Alabama shad as endangered or threatened, despite the fact that the shad population has plummeted in recent years, the Center for Biological Diversity claims.
By DAN MCCUE
CHICAGO (CN) - The neighbors of a coal-fired electric power plant in Cook County, Ill. filed a class action against its operator, complaining the firm has ignored their concerns about odors, fly ash and other particulates that rain down on their properties.
By JEFF D. GORMAN
(CN) - A gas station owner in North Carolina is going another round with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals after the animal rights activists lost their first bid to stop his New Year's "Possum Drop" celebration, according to the store owner's attorney.
By PHILIP A. JANQUART
COLUMBIA, S.C. (CN) - South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. is illegally discharging arsenic and other toxins into the groundwater, putting the state's only national park at risk and taking advantage of low-income and minority communities, an environmental group claims.
By MATT REYNOLDS
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Actor-economist-political pundit Ben Stein claims he was wrongfully fired from a $300,000 job on a TV commercial because of his view of global warming: that "God, and not man" controls the weather.
By CAMERON LANGFORD
HOUSTON (CN) - A New Year's Eve gas line explosion gave a 3-year-old boy "burns so horrific, his fingers on his hands had to be amputated," his father says in a complaint against CenterPoint Energy.
By ADAM KLASFELD
BROOKLYN (CN) -Japanese boxes inlaid with ivory from century-old elephant tusks were seized for being shipped without an endangered species permit, an art shipper says in a $700,000 claim against a logistics company.
By JEFF D. GORMAN
LOS ANGELES (CN) - The government gave the green light for a solar energy project on protected land in southern California that contains a burial ground and sacred trails, a group of Native Americans and two nonprofits claim.
By JONNY BONNER
DENVER (CN) - The National Ski Areas Association claims the U.S. Forest Service illegally seized privately owned water rights without compensation from 121 resorts on federal lands, via a "stunning and unprecedented directive."
By JONNY BONNER
DENVER (CN) - Golden, Colo., sued the Fish and Wildlife Service to stop it from granting a 300-foot-wide right of way for a four-lane highway along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
From THE WASHINGTON POST
The Obama administration finalized a rule Thursday governing the management of 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands, establishing a new blueprint to guide everything from logging to recreation and renewable energy development. Read more from The Washington Post.
From THE NEW YORK TIMES
Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig, which blew out in the Gulf of Mexico nearly two years ago, is not liable for some of the pollution claims arising from the fatal accident, a federal judge in Louisiana ruled on Thursday. Read more from The New York Times.
From USA TODAY
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has started her own investigation into the mysterious illness that's caused symptoms of facial tics and verbal outbursts among teenagers in Le Roy, N.Y., in light of new evidence about a toxic chemical spill more than 40 years ago that caused water and ground contamination nearby. Read more from USA Today.
From ABC NEWS
Automakers expressed qualified support for California's proposed rules to require carmakers to build more electric and other less-polluting hybrid cars and trucks by 2025. Read more from ABC News.
From MSNBC
Environmental groups sued the Obama administration on Thursday for granting the Navy permits to test underwater sonar along the West Coast -- and potentially harass up to 650,000 porpoises, seals, dolphins and whales over a five-year period. Read more from MSNBC.
From CHICAGO TRIBUNE
An Ohio-based utility announced Thursday that it is shutting three Lake Erie coal plants and all but one unit at another, a move that will scrap some of the biggest fish killers along the Great Lakes. Read more from the Chicago Tribune.
From YAHOO! NEWS
Pollution in China's southern region of Guangxi sparked panic buying of bottled water this week after a mining firm dumped toxic cadmium into a river, according to state media. Read more from Yahoo! News.
From FOX NEWS
The venus flytrap's struggle for survival in the wild along coast of the Carolinas faces an added threat from poachers looking to make a buck by uprooting and selling them. Read more from Fox News.
From MSNBC
Some 33 long-finned pilot whales that were refloated Wednesday off a New Zealand beach with the help of volunteers became stranded again Thursday and will have to be euthanized, officials told TVNZ. Read more from MSNBC.
By JUNE WILLIAMS
(CN) - NASA scientists found 2011 was the ninth warmest year since 1880, saying their analysis shows a long-term trend of rising global temperatures.
By TRAVIS SANFORD
WASHINGTON (CN) - President Barack Obama has denied a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, saying that it was not in the national interest at this time.
By TRAVIS SANFORD
WASHINGTON (CN) - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will presume pilots dipping below minimum altitudes over four West Coast National Marine Sanctuaries have disturbed marine mammals and seabirds.
By TISH KRAFT
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Food and Drug Administration plans to allow for the importation of meat that contains residues of new animal drugs not approved in the United States.
By MARIMER MATOS
WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service banned the importation of four nonnative constrictor snakes in the United States in an effort to protect the Florida Everglades and other ecosystems, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Tuesday.
By TRAVIS SANFORD
WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeks comment on a Draft Economic Analysis on more than doubling the protected habitat of the endangered western snowy plover.
By TRAVIS SANFORD
WASHINGTON (CN) - The public has until Feb. 13 to comment on an extension to emission and fuel economy standards for passenger vehicles in model years 2017-2025 proposed by two agencies.