Syngenta has recently settled several lawsuits in federal courts and is seeking a global settlement with over 6,000 litigants ...

By Clay Masters Even in retirement from a hydrology career, Paul Wotzka keeps tabs on soil layers in southeastern Minnesota’s bluff country. “We have a groundwater sensitive parameter down here,” ...

Ohio’s newly passed budget bill included an amendment that seeks to remove an air nuisance rule that let residents sue ...

Appropriations bill rider would prevent EPA from improving warning labels on dangerous pesticides, as industry pushes to shield manufacturers from health-related lawsuits ...

To combat the onslaught of litigation, Bayer has been pushing legislation in nine states, that would shield the company from ...

The resulting conflict is playing out in courtrooms, statehouses and regulatory agencies across the country. It’s grounded in constitutional questions of federal preemption, the commerce clause and ...

Justin Chen, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, the union representing 8,000 EPA ...

A possible settlement agreement between the Trump administration and the Pebble copper and gold prospect in Southwest Alaska did not pan out, according to a recent filing in a federal court by Pebble ...

Companies feared rules and lawsuits based on the Office of Research and Development’s assessments of the dangers of formaldehyde, ethylene oxide and other substances.

Efforts to more strictly regulate the chemical, known as hydrofluoric acid and modified hydrofluoric acid, are escalating to ...

President Donald Trump is temporarily exempting medical sterilization facilities that use ethylene oxide from tighter emissions standards, including plants in Georgia.