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A Colorado federal judge has ordered a company that runs a gold mine in the state to pay $500,000 in penalties for violations of the federal Clean Water Act after environmentalists sued the company in 2019, claiming it was illegally polluting a river that flows through the state capital and eventually feeds into the Missouri River.
Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts reflected on the "unusual" and "difficult" past year the court has endured while addressing judges and attorneys at the 10th Circuit judicial conference in Colorado on Friday evening, saying "it was gut-wrenching to drive into a Supreme Court with barricades around it."
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has defended its decisions to lump counties in Texas and Colorado into ozone-level reduction zones, telling the D.C. Circuit that they were the appropriate moves following a 2020 directive from the appeals court.
The World Trade Organization has suspended its investigation, effective Wednesday, of a dispute between Canada and China over Beijing's restrictions on canola seed imports, after Canada asked the panel probing the conflict to pause its work.
The government of Laos has dropped its attempt in Idaho federal court to enforce a $3.7 million arbitration award against a businessman and his company over an ill-fated casino venture, one day after a federal judge ruled she lacked jurisdiction over the claim.