Source: The Telegraph (GA), January 31, 2013 By: S. Heather Duncan Gary Sharp had lived in Juliette near Plant Scherer almost 15 years when he was diagnosed with lung cancer last year. He’s never smoked. But he’s seen something like light gray mud hauled out of the plant and slopped all over Ga. 87 in […]

Source: Chicago Tribune, December 27, 2012 By: Jennifer Delgado State sues firm, contending it broke law in installing 10 printing presses Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit Thursday against a west suburban bookbinding and printing plant that she said illegally installed equipment that contributes to air pollution. The 77-page suit, filed in Cook […]

Source: http://www.sokolovelaw.com, October 22,2012 By: Sokolove Law Staff A Massachusetts town has filed a class-action chemical exposure lawsuit against three chemical companies over the potential harm caused by high levels of chemicals known as PCBs. The lawsuit seeks damages on behalf of Lexington and other school districts of Massachusetts with school buildings that are affected […]

Read here about a lawsuit filed against a corn plant in Iowa because of significant pollution emitted from the plant.

Source: http://www.milforddailynews.com, February 23, 2012 By: Brian Benson Cleanup of contaminated town land behind Benjamin Moore’s Sumner Street property is nearly complete, but a lawsuit stemming from the contamination continues. Town Counsel Gerald Moody said the town plans to proceed with a suit it filed against Benjamin Moore in 2009 that seeks to hold the […]

Read here about a lawsuit that was settled after a group of farmers sued a Missouri company over the chemical, hexavalent chromium.

Source: http://content.usatoday.com, October 3, 2011 By: Douglas Stanglin A massive industrial fire at a chemical processing plant is sending plumes of black smoke into the sky near Waxahachie, in north-central Texas, The Dallas Morning News reports. The fire began before noon at the Magnablend chemical processing plant and quickly spread as a burning liquid. At one […]

Source: http://www.latimes.com, September 15, 2011 By: Sam Quinones U.S. EPA orders the defense contractor to pay for a system to clean up a shallow aquifer in the San Gabriel Valley. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered defense contractor Northrop Grumman to pay $20 million for a system to clean up contamination in shallow groundwater […]

Source: http://www.lenconnect.com, August 30, 2011 By: Dennis Pelham More than 60 property owners could file separate lawsuits over groundwater pollution from the Tecumseh Products  Co. plant in Tecumseh after a judge denied class action status on Monday. “I do not like the idea of inviting 60-some litigants,” said Lenawee County Circuit Judge Margaret M.S. Noe. […]

Read here about owners of a chemical plant who have agreed to pay over $ million to help pay for cleanup costs resulting from an explosion that occurred in 2006.

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, July 25, 2011 By: Vicki Smith Three judges hearing a coal slurry pollution lawsuit against Massey Energy are considering whether the parent corporation should be held liable for the actions of a subsidiary it claims operated independently. Massey contends that Rawl Sales & Processing, the company accused of poisoning hundreds of southern West Virginia […]

Source: http://www2.tbo.com, June 16, 2011 By: Mark Douglas Three years after filing a lawsuit against the Raytheon Co. for polluting a St. Petersburg neighborhood, attorneys have agreed to a settlement in which most homeowners will get $2,500 each. If all those entitled to the settlement collect their money, the cost would amount to about $900,000 […]