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UN High Commissioner of Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday said the use of violent force by the government of Libya in densely populated cities could amount to international war crimes . The use of cluster...

JURIST Guest Columnist Laurie Blank of Emory Law School says the Goldstone "retraction" does not mitigate the report's damaging effects on the law of war. Among the report's flaws, it ignored the element of intent for the war crime of...

The US military referred charges Monday against Army Capt. Carl Bjork, accused by several Iraqi detainees of ordering the killings of two Iraqi civilians in 2006. The charges against Bjork include one count of reckless endangerment and two counts...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Monday a finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health and the environment. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson signed two separate findings Monday: that greenhouse gases "threaten...

The US House of Representatives on Friday passed a climate bill that focuses on clean energy. In his weekly address Friday evening, US President Barack Obama praised the bill's passage...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Monday that it would review three new source review rules that regulate emissions from coal power plants. The announcement comes as the EPA has stepped up its...

Kenneth P. Green : "The EPA's issuance of an endangerment finding for the greenhouse gases was inevitable, given the 2007 decision of the Supreme Court in Mass. v. EPA , and the stated intention of...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Friday a proposed finding that atmospheric greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, setting the stage for government regulation of the harmful gases for the first time. Announcement...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) submitted a "Proposal for Endangerment Finding for Greenhouse Gases Under the Clean Air Act" to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) of the Office of Management and...

The Bush administration abandoned plans to impose Clean Air Act (CAA) regulations on power plants and other stationary pollution sources after opposition from the oil industry, according to a report released Friday by the...