A Kenosha company was ordered Tuesday to pay nearly $49,000 in fines and court costs for violating state environmental laws, according to a news release from the state attorney general’s office.

Tagged with: Bruce Schroeder environment

The National Wildlife Federation sued New York state officials on Thursday for backing off on tough regulations to rid ship ballast water of invasive species that threaten the Great Lakes, the Hudson River and Long Island Sound.

Tagged with: environment Environmental Law EPA Great Lakes

Wauwatosa resident Ronald Collision will pay $2,000 for violations regarding the maintenance of underground gasoline and dry cleaning storage tanks, according to a news release from Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen's office.

Tagged with: environment Milwaukee County Circuit Court

Saying the owner of a sunken barge in Milwaukee was a “textbook example of a litigant playing fast and loose with the judicial system,” an appellate court judge Tuesday upheld more than $37,000 in environmental penalties. The case stems from ...

Tagged with: barge Basil Ryan Department of Justice Department of Natural Resources DNR Eminent domain environment Menomonee River Thomas Cooper Wisconsin Department of Transportation WisDOT

Employment Hostile work environment Where an employee never complained of a hostile work environment, summary judgment was properly granted on his claim against the employer. “Employers need not divine complaints from the ether, guessing at the subjective suspicions of employees. ...

Tagged with: Employment Digest environment