A Missouri man, Christopher Lee Carroll, was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $3 million for ...

Consider the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. The criminal case – where BP “pleaded guilty to felony manslaughter, environmental crimes and obstruction of Congress” – and related civil lawsuits led to ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has halted all pending environmental litigation and reassigned four career Justice Department attorneys focused on environmental issues, according to three ...

The Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism (MEFT) has expressed satisfaction with the establishment and the progress made in adjudicating cases thanks to its first-of-its-kind specialized ...

What action is the EU taking to curb environmental crime? The EU has taken action to combat criminal networks involved in all forms of environmental crime, including by introducing rules on waste ...

24 criminal cases have been initiated in Kherson region to address crimes committed by the Russian forces against the environment. This was reported by Vitalii Nikitin, Deputy Head of the Kherson ...

The death penalty awaits all Kenyans who commit certain crimes like robbery with violence. But it is not always clear what awaits those who commit environmental crimes. UNEP defines environmental ...

At the Environment and Natural Resources Division, which brings civil and criminal cases to enforce the nation’s environmental protection laws, attorneys have been ordered to freeze all of its ...

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Environmental critics of the world’s largest copper mine in ­Indonesia’s Papua region have launched a legal test case against ...