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There has been a lot of scholarly discussion in recent years about the importance of putting a price on natural resources.

The PCB contamination in the Lower Fox River in Wisconsin continues to spawn novel Superfund decisions.

A discussion on the latest climate change issues.

Two years ago, in posting about the brouhaha over the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, I noted that self-righteousness among climate advocates does not help their cause.

For several decades now, the United States has taken the position that communications and documents exchanged in Superfund matters between government lawyers representing the US EPA and government lawyers representing federal PRPs are privileged.

Earlier this week, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a District Court decision and vacated an injunction which had prevented the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service from reintroducing the Mexican...

On Monday, the TVA announced that Watts Bar Unit 2 watts-barhad successfully completed what is known as its final power ascension test.

What happens when Superfund runs headlong into Mother Nature? Hurricane Sandy provides a vivid answer.

As we reported in April, the Attorney Generals of New York, California, Massachusetts, and the Virgin Islands have joined in a multistate investigation into Exxon's knowledge of the relationship between fossil fuels and climate change as far back as 1977.

The fourth installment of our Paris climate change negotiations tracker is available.

An article published Friday in Science reports that the Antarctic ozone hole ozone is healing. As the article notes, there was some previous evidence about global improvement in stratospheric.

Last week, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia struck down EPA's rule implementing the 2008 ozone standards.

Last week, the Geneva Association, which describes itself as "the leading international insurance think tank for strategically important insurance and risk management issues," issued a report entitled "Extreme events and insurance: 2011 annus horribilis."

Earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change.

As every litigator knows, evidence almost always tells a story that is untidy and riddled with loose ends. This was illustrated by a recent innocent landowner case in California — Coppola v. Smith.

It will be interesting to see whether MassDEP can somehow come up with the money necessary to run its own program.

Last Friday, Lisa Jackson signed "Step 3" of the Tailoring Rule.

This week, Chief Judge Gloria Navarro calmly issued an Order vacating Judge Jones's findings in their entirety, concluding that Hage had no right to graze on federal land...