The US Supreme Court gave environmentalists a partial win on the scope of the Clean Water Act, ruling that the law applies to some pollution discharges that don’t go directly into a major body of water.
The 6-3 decision Thursday told a federal appeals…
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Greenhouse emissions are expected to fall by 6% this year due to a global slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)…
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Americans and Russians have grown more dissatisfied with the way their governments address environmental issues in recent years, according to research released on Wednesday of the world’s biggest carbon dioxide emitters.
Residents of China and Saudi A…
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The US Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling that had allowed litigation by Montana landowners to proceed against BP unit Atlantic Richfield Co seeking a more extensive cleanup of a hazardous waste site than the federal government had…
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A spillage of waste molybdenum ore in northeast China last month was the biggest tailings leak the country witnessed in almost 20 years and needed the toughest environmental emergency response, the environment ministry said on Monday.
The incident on …
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A Chilean environmental court will look into the State Defence Council’s (CDE) allegations that the Escondida copper mine, the world’s largest, has caused “irreparable damage”…
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A Chilean environmental court said on Tuesday it would investigate a complaint brought by the government against global miner BHP over allegations of damage to the northern Punta Negra salt flat.
The First Environmental Court, based in the northern C…
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The world needs to limit global temperature increases to between 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius by the end of this century to avoid devastating climate…
Global emissions from energy held steady in 2019 for the first time in three years as developed nations continued to move away from coal power and toward renewable energy and natural gas. Even as the world economy grew, energy-related carbon dioxide em…
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A group of US institutional investors urged energy, timber and mining companies on Wednesday not to take advantage of Trump administration rollbacks of environmental regulations, such as moving operations into public lands that are being opened up.
Th…
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