A D.C. Circuit panel has scrapped a biological opinion underpinning lobster fishery restrictions enacted to protect North Atlantic right whales, ruling that the National Marine Fisheries Service improperly relied on worst-case scenarios that favored the whales in regard to uncertainty over the fisheries' impact on the critically endangered species.
A Black man is claiming supervisors at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia passed him over for a promotion in favor of a younger, less qualified white applicant whom they "coached" to prepare for a job interview, according to his discrimination suit against the U.S. Air Force.
Bayer CropScience LP and Monsanto Co. have agreed to pay nearly $7 million to settle allegations that they made false and misleading advertising claims about the safety of Roundup weedkillers containing glyphosate, New York Attorney General Letitia James said Thursday.
Chevron USA Inc. and Syngenta AG are urging an Illinois federal judge to grant their summary judgment motions in multidistrict litigation by consumers claiming the herbicide paraquat caused their Parkinson's disease, arguing that no peer-reviewed science backs such claims.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is revoking a suspended Clean Water Act permit for the proposed NorthMet mine in northeast Minnesota, having found that the permit does not ensure compliance with the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa's water quality requirements.