Leading Wednesday's environmental law news, Norman Mineta, secretary of the US Department of Transportation has announced the final rule changes to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) system, which governs the minimum fuel economy averages for...

Lawyers for two long-time British residents seized by the US and detained at Guantanamo Bay claim to have documents that indicate British officials prompted their arrests while withholding information that would have aided the two men....

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that UN human rights envoy Yash Ghai should be removed from his position as special envoy after Ghai publicly criticized Cambodia's intolerance to dissent . The comments come one...

Afghanistan's parliament on Wednesday demanded that government officials block Abdul Rahman , the Afghan man who faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity, from seeking asylum in another country. Parliamentary speaker Yunus Qanooni...

Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, Judge Saundra Armstrong of the US District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled that the US Bureau of Reclamation must leave more water in the Klamath River...

Leading Thursday's environmental law news, Judge William M. Hoeveler of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida has ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers and the US Fish and Wildlife Service...

Leading Wednesday's environmental law news, Canadian Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice announced a new plan to improve drinking water in "First Nation communities," i.e., Indian reservations. The plan includes mandatory training for treatment plant...

Russian diplomat Konstantin Dolgov has requested a UN briefing on conditions in UN detention facilities following the recent deaths of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian Serb Milan Babic . Dolgov also asked Tuesday...

In an effort to bring closure to the contentious issue of the fate of former Liberian President Charles Taylor , Liberia's new president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Tuesday called on African leaders to decide whether to place Taylor...

For the fourth day in a row, hundreds of protestors gathered at a central square in Minsk on Wednesday to oppose what they claimed were the rigged results of the Belarus presidential election, defying...