"Building anything important in America requires layers of approvals from multiple levels of government," wrote Philip K. Howard in his 2014 book, The Rule of Nobody. "Environmental review has evolved ...

Third-party litigation funding (TPLF) involves outside investors providing nonrecourse funding to plaintiffs in exchange for ...

How is science used in environmental litigation, and by whom? A new study finds patterns in the litigants and their strategies. The judiciary frequently acts in its role as a counterbalance to ...

In 2023, community groups sued local governments and state agencies on environmental justice grounds. On Aug. 21, 2023, three environmental groups in Colorado—GreenLatinos, 350 Colorado, and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has halted all pending environmental litigation and reassigned four career Justice Department attorneys focused on environmental ...

Legal action has brought important decisions, from the scrapping of fossil fuel plants to revised climate plans ...

Seeger Weiss, the plaintiffs firm best known for its drug industry mass torts cases, is getting into the environmental litigation game with the addition of a three-lawyer team from Hagens Berman Sobol ...

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A group of pollutants known as "forever chemicals" are so widespread in the environment that some of the largest manufacturers of the material have agreed to pay water suppliers across the country, ...

Among many lawsuits and enforcement actions, the Department of Justice (DOJ) secured an agreement to address the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis and sued to limit air emissions at a facility in ...