The N.J. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Griepenburg case, where it should provide important guidance to attorneys concerning the relationship between restrictive zoning, environmental and ...

The Trump administration late Wednesday tossed decades of environmental policy — laying the groundwork for an overhaul of how the federal government implements a bedrock environmental law. That law, ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled to limit the scope of environmental review required under a seminal 1970s environmental protection law. The move brought a proposed 88-mile railroad ...

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The Buckeye Environmental Network has sued the Ohio Department of Natural Resources over the permitting of two injection ...

State officials are hoping to shrink the amount of time environmental review of housing projects takes from a year or more to just 30 days with a new set of regulations that Gov. Maura Healey called ...

The Clean Water Act prohibits the discharge of pollutants into "waters of the United States" without a permit, but what are the boundaries of "waters of the United States"? This question has vexed ...

Jonathan H. Adler is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he teaches courses in environmental, ...

An infamous, decades-old environmental law in California is finally in for a revamping. On Monday, following the passage of the state budget, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills that aim to change the ...

California developers are celebrating the rollback of a landmark environmental law that they say will help clear the way for new housing in a state that has suffered a severe shortage for decades. Gov ...