pollution
How Chevron imprisoned environmental lawyer Steven Donziger
November 4, 2021The alleged crime was contempt of court, but the real crime was Donziger’s successful lawsuit against Chevron, which resulted in $9.5 billion in damages for Indigenous Ecuadorians.
Read moreCleanup of abandoned mines could get boost, relieving rivers
September 20, 2021Thousands of abandoned coal mines in the U.S. have been polluting rivers and streams for decades, in some cases harming fish and contaminating drinking water. Now efforts to finally clean up the sites could soon get...
Read moreJudge tosses Trump rollback of clean water safeguards
September 1, 2021WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out a Trump-era rule that ended federal protections for hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands, and other waterways and left them vulnerable to pollution from nearby development....
Read moreAn infamously dirty river is coming back to life thanks to community activism
August 23, 2021Due to sustained community pressure and Earthjustice litigation, D.C.’s Anacostia River is finally recovering from decades of pollution.
Read moreOil giant Enbridge defies Line 5 pipeline shutdown order, faces profit seizures
August 17, 2021Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered fossil fuel company Enbridge to shut down its dangerous Line 5 oil pipeline, which runs beneath the Straits of Mackinac in the Great Lakes, by May 12. Whitmer issued the order...
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