Energy
Pennsylvania man faces sentencing for falsifying abandoned oil well plugging reports
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The fake reports caused the re-inspection of 95 wells in the Allegheny National Forest.
Land
Judge OKs controversial land swap in Michigan’s Ottawa National Forest
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He said Forest Service considered objections to losing public access to scenic Wildcat Falls, which the agency acknowledged give some visitors “a sense of place and attachment to the area.”
Echo
Risk and resilience in the Great Lakes Basin
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The regional risks are many, but so is the resilience.
Wildlife
Wisconsin criminal case shows how courts value wildlife
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Spiritual and aesthetic values don’t figure into it. Expert witness calculates replacement costs.
Echo
Michigan’s environment makes front pages, but not political front burner
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Newspapers reveal worries about fish, floods, farms, mines, trails, energy and Roscoe the deer.
Water
Leaking petroleum judgment gains $800,000 for state
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The money is for cleanup , civil fines and penalties for failure to properly remediate three sites with leaking underground storage tanks in Berrien County. The ruling could be appealed.
Nearshore
Lake’s legal saga unresolved after challenge to Minnesota summer camp rejected
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals has upheld an Itasca County decision that no environmental impact statement is required to build a proposed summer camp and retreat on Deer Lake.
Waste
Judge OKs settlement with Illinois resin manufacturer
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The agreement resolves a decade-long dispute that began with EPA inspections in September 2004 of a plant then owned and operated by PolyOne Corp.
Land
Towns can ban fracking, New York’s top court rules
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Zoning doesn’t intrude on state’s regulatory oversight, court says. Minority dissent argues that local ordinances do more than regulate land use.