(Adds Volkswagen comment, background, paragraphs 2 - 10) By Ayesha Rascoe Sept 30 (Reuters)- A Texas county sued Volkswagen AG in state court on Wednesday, accusing the German carmaker of
violating state environmental laws by installing software on some of its diesel vehicles to circumvent emissions tests.
A Hartland real estate company has agreed to pay $ 150,000 in penalties for
violating state environmental laws regarding erosion control during construction of a condominium project.
A federal judge has dismissed cases brought by two counties in Utah and Florida alleging Volkswagen's emissions fraud
violated their state environmental laws.
This July, a state appeals court unanimously uphelda lower court ruling that, indeed, the city
violated state environmental law in building the Mott Haven campus.
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«We have the mandate to shut down any industry in the
state that
violates the
environmental law; and now, we have taken it upon ourselves to educate them to ensure compliance,» he said.
The Department of
Environmental Conservation
violated federal
law by allowing manure control plans to be certified by the same private experts hired by farmers to craft the plans, and by keeping plans confidential from the public, according to a ruling in Albany this week by Acting
State Supreme Court Justice David Weinstein.
In 2007, the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, acting on behalf of the Bronx Committee for Toxic Free Schools, a coalition of parents, neighborhood residents and community organizations, successfully sued the School Construction Authority and the Department of Education for
violating the Public Authorities
Law and the
State Environmental Quality Review Act by not disclosing a Site Management Plan.
«Although the sale of Brazilian Blowout in California
violated five separate
state health,
environmental and consumer
laws and resulted in numerous acute injuries, we have not been able to get it off the market,» DiBartolomeis said.
Environmental groups question whether the PSC might have
violated state law with a policy that leaves no energy - efficiency requirements for the utilities.
When a business engages in practices that
violate state or federal
environmental laws, the corporate officers, business owners or other key employees of the business may be held civilly responsible — and also criminally responsible.