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Mercury emissions decision pleases Milgram
Milgram TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to hear the appeal of a group of utilities upset with mercury emissions regulations pleased New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram. -
EPA to review decision not to allow states to set emissions standards
Lisa Jackson WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday vowed to reconsider her agency's Bush-era decision not to allow states to limit climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions. -
AGs ask EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions
Martha Coakley (D) WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-A group of 18 state attorneys general are pushing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to enforce laws enacted to curb climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions. -
Obama draws praise from Democratic AGs over emissions standards
Patrick Lynch (D-R.I.) WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - U.S. President Barack Obama's move to clear the way for states to regulate tailpipe emissions drew praise from several state attorneys general. -
Obama could render Brown's greenhouse crusade moot
Jerry Brown (D) SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-California Attorney General Jerry Brown's legal maneuvers to get the federal government to allow the state to regulate greenhouse gas emissions could be coming to a happy end. -
Mich. AG: Leave emissions standards to Congress
Mike Cox (R) LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline)-Siding with his state's auto industry, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox says Congress, not individual states, should regulate tailpipe emissions. -
Landfill cleanup will cost defendants nearly $100 mil
Milgram TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) - More than 200 defendants will pay a total of $43 million to the State of New Jersey to settle allegations of natural resource damage at the Combe Fill South Landfill in Morris County. -
King: Obama administration could help coal plant foes
Gary King (D) FARMINGTON, N.M. (Legal Newsline)-New Mexico Attorney General Gary King says President-elect Barack Obama's administration likely means that the proposed Desert Rock Power plant will get a fair hearing. -
Obama calls climate change a national security matter
Barack Obama (D) CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) - Global climate change is a "matter of urgency," U.S. President-elect Barack Obama said Tuesday, bolstering efforts by some state attorneys general to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. -
Calif. AG wants emissions standards tied to bailout
Jerry Brown (D) SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-California Attorney General Jerry Brown jumped into the automaker bailout debate in Washington on Monday when he fired off a letter to top Democrats urging tough emission standards get tied to any Congressional funding for American automakers. -
Brown challenges feds, state Capitol on global warming
Jerry Brown (D) SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-California Attorney General Jerry Brown has stepped up his attacks on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over its years of "shameful inaction" on global warming. -
Nevada AG files suit over Yucca Mountain radiation standards
Catherine Cortez Masto (D) CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline) -Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto filed a lawsuit Friday, demanding that a federal appeals court reject radiation exposure limits set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the Yucca Mountain repository. -
AG Myers: White House ignoring 'reality' of global warming
Hardy Myers (D) SALEM, Ore. (Legal Newsline)-The Bush administration has "refused to accept the reality" that greenhouse gas emissions are harming the environment, Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers told Legal Newsline. -
Supreme Court to hear superfund liability cases
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-The U.S. Supreme Court could place new limits on claims against companies sued under the federal superfund law. -
Conway concerned with gas stations' profits
Conway FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) - Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway is warning state petroleum marketers that if they are selling regular gasoline instead of reformulated gas, it should be reflected in the price. -
Attacks nothing new to Calif. AG
Jerry Brown (D) SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - The game plan remains consistent, but the accusations of political gamesmanship are just beginning if indeed Attorney General Jerry Brown formally announces his intentions to run for a return to the California governor's office he once occupied thirty years ago. -
Oil refineries going unchecked by EPA, group of AGs claims
Cuomo WASHINGTON, D.C. (Legal Newsline) - Twelve states led by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo are suing the federal Environmental Protection Agency for failing to control emissions from oil refineries. -
Feds, Milgram don't want cancer-causer leaked
Milgram TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) - New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram is joining with the federal government in a settlement designed to reduce vinyl chloride emissions at a Burlington Township manufacturing facility. -
Brown heads for another lawsuit against the feds
Jerry Brown (D) SACRAMENTO, Calif., (Legal Newsline)- California Attorney General Jerry Brown continued to wield the power of his office to curb greenhouse gas pollutions on Thursday by announcing plans to sue the U.S Environmental Protection Agency for failing to regulate pollution from ships, aircraft and industrial equipment. -
Five states threaten to sue EPA over lack of greenhouse regulations
Hardy Myers (D) SALEM, Ore. (Legal Newsline)-Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers has joined with four other states to pressure the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to adopt regulations aimed at reducing pollution from planes, ships and off-road vehicles.