"An Indonesian forensic scientist whose testimony has proved crucial in securing rulings against environmental violators faces a third potential lawsuit."
"The District of Columbia on Friday filed a lawsuit against the federal government over pollution in the Anacostia River, arguing it has inflicted “catastrophic harm” on the mostly poor and minority communities living along the urban waterway."
"California has decided to abandon its groundbreaking regulations phasing out diesel trucks and requiring cleaner locomotives because the incoming Trump administration is unlikely to allow the state to implement them."
"The National Environmental Policy Act, water and nuclear battles are just a few of the environmental issues on the justices’ docket during the first half of the new year."
"A Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab investigation finds very high levels of lead and arsenic in homes near a factory processing US toxic waste"
"For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday warned that “forever chemicals” present in sewage sludge that is used as fertilizer can pose human health risks."
"The Supreme Court is staying out of heated legal fights over the oil industry’s responsibility to pay up for climate change, ownership of public lands in Utah, environmental review of a major offshore wind project and EPA’s crackdown on smog-forming pollution."
"The Energy Poverty Awareness Center, which fought climate legislation in Maryland, has ties to a group that is partly funded by oil and gas companies."
"Media organizations are taking unusual steps to prepare for what they fear will be a legal and political onslaught from the new administration."
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