Source: https://www.nytimes.com/, April 15, 2022 By: Stefanos Chen Hero, a new 22-story condominium building in Long Island City, Queens, promised luxury: tall ceilings, high-end appliances and Spanish oak cabinetry in every apartment. Amenities would include a yoga studio, a gym, a pet spa, a roof deck “sky lounge” and a Zen garden. But since it […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, April 13, 2022 By: Jam,es D. Brussla, Levenfeld PearsteinLLC Though climate change dominates headlines during Earth Month, health experts (and lawyers) are increasingly concerned about a ubiquitous group of chemicals known as PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). The few people who have heard of PFAS were probably introduced to them through the 2019 […]

Source: https://dailyvoice.com/, April 12, 2022 By: Nicole Valinote Northrop Grumman has agreed to pay $35 million to the United States for environmental cleanup costs related to a former plant on Long Island. The payment resolves a civil lawsuit brought by the US against the aerospace and defense technology company, according to an announcement on Tuesday, […]

Source: https://www.benningtonbanner.com/, April 12, 2022 By: Jim Therrien Two lawsuits related to chemical contamination around a former factory on Route 346 have been filed in Bennington Superior Court Civil Division. The state Agency of Natural Resources is suing the original and current owners of the Warren Wire/General Cable plant for mitigation and other costs stemming […]

Source: https://www.washingtonian.com/, April 13, 2022 By: Marisa M. Kashin One frigid morning in January 2021, in the dead of pre-vaccine winter, Reem Sadik stared at the open ceiling of her home in DC’s Palisades neighborhood and tried to process what the construction crew was telling her. Seconds earlier, they’d discovered that a major structural beam—one […]

Source: https://www.thewesterlysun.com/, April 11, 2022 Rhode Island will get $15 million through a settlement with major oil and gas companies that allegedly polluted the state’s soil and groundwater with a gasoline additive, the attorney general announced Monday. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said the case, filed in 2016, alleged that Shell, Sunoco and Citgo, […]

Source: https://www.dailyherald.com/, April 8, 2022 By: Eric Schelkopf Officials for the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency continue to assess the damage done to the environment after nearly 8,000 gallons of gasoline on Wednesday leaked from the Shell gas station at the intersection of routes 64 and 47 in Lily Lake. “Illinois EPA remains at the site […]

Source: https://www.abqjournal.com/, April 10, 2022 Dairy farmers can seek reimbursement from the federal government for cows contaminated by chemicals that have leached into the groundwater around an Air Force base in eastern New Mexico. U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján on Friday commended a recent rule change by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that created a […]

Source: https://www.natlawreview.com/, April 10, 2022 A Central District of California Judge has preliminarily approved a class action settlement in City of Long Beach, et al. v. Monsanto Company, et al., that will resolve claims by various municipalities against Monsanto Company, Solutia, Inc. and Pharmacia for environmental damages related to PCBs.  The underlying basis for the claims […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, April 6, 2022 By: Madison C. Wright, Phelps Dunbar LLP Reversing a trial court’s grant of summary judgment for an excess insurer under a pollution exclusion, the Mississippi Supreme Court unanimously held the exclusion ambiguous. See Omega Protein, Inc. v. Evanston Ins. Co., Case No. 2020-CA-01097-SCT, 2022 WL178171, at *1 (Miss. Jan. 20, 2022). […]

Source: https://www.sacbee.com/, April 6, 2022 by: Madeline Shannon The Ballico-Cressey School District, a small school district in a rural stretch of northern Merced County, is suing corporate giants Dow Chemical and Shell Oil. The lawsuit, filed on March 30 in Merced County Superior Court, alleges that the big companies manufactured and sold agricultural fumigants containing […]

Source: https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/, April 6, 2022 By: Kate Ready The Jackson Hole Airport Board is suing a number of companies, including 3M, DuPont and Chemours, for selling a fire-quelling foam that contains harmful contaminants known to pollute groundwater and soil. Other airports also have joined the suit targeting chemicals that airports were required to use by […]