Environmental groups sue Vermont agency over bat protection
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Challenge Filed Over Vermont s Refusal to Protect Endangered Bats From Deadly Insecticide Spraying
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‘Paying for pollution’: As N.J.’s incinerators dirty the air, electric customers help foot the bill
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
Posted Feb 25, 2021
The Covanta plant in Newark has operated since 1990. They take in 2,800 tons of waste from 22 municipalities in Essex County as well as New York City. The garbage is burned and then converted into energy. The company says burning trash is a better alternative to dumping garbage in a landfill that produces methane. (Karen Yi | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)Karen Yi | NJ Advance Media
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Scattered across New Jersey, four looming incinerators spend day and night torching our trash.
Published: Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Gavel. Photo credit: Staff Sgt. Nicholas Rau/Air Force
Trump s last year in office brought a new wave of major developments in environmental law. Staff Sgt. Nicholas Rau/Air Force
President Trump s four years in office brought a steady stream of courtroom brawls over environmental issues before an increasingly conservative judiciary. 2020 was no exception.
The last 12 months have been marked by a fresh crop of Supreme Court rulings on environmental questions, major courtroom victories for Black communities fighting energy projects and a notable loss for a group of kids who want the government to help protect the next generation from the harms associated with a rapidly warming planet.