...Seattle-based seafood company will pay a $2.5 million civil penalty to settle allegations that it violated clean water law at processing plants in Alaska, the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department announced Wednesday...

...government has filed a civil lawsuit against BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., alleging violations of federal clean air and water laws for two major spills on the North Slope in 2006. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage...

ANCHORAGE - Cruise ships plying the Inside Passage routinely dump polluted water in spots known as ``doughnut holes,'' areas just beyond three miles offshore.

...They were later indicted and remain fugitives. Royal Caribbean itself pleaded guilty to 21 counts of violating clean water laws and lying to the Coast Guard. In October, it was sentenced to pay a total of $18 million in fines in six federal jurisdictions...

...profits are worth more that clean water, then every business will want to ignore, bypass or subvert existing clean water laws to suit their own needs and bottom lines. You can imagine the outcome. Coeur made its own choices, and it knew the...

...earlier that Kensington's plan to dispose of its mine rock waste in Lower Slate Lake did not comply with the clean water laws. Coeur appealed and asked the full 11-judge panel to consider the case. The court's decision to ask the plaintiffs...

...say 'Now what. What do we do next?'" Richard Glick, a Portland-based lawyer specializing in environmental and water law, said in a memo distributed Tuesday that the best direction for the city to take would be to determine an environmentally...

...proposal indicates a shift in the agency's policy. Environmentalists consider mixing zones a loophole in federal clean water laws, while industry sees them as a necessary tool. EPA Administrator Carol Browner last month announced her agency's...