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 […]

Source: http://www.thetelegraph.com, June 20, 2011 By: Sanford J. Schmidt Scott Monroe was a 19-year-old naval scholarship student of nuclear engineering when he came down with a potentially lethal blood cancer that he and his lawyers claim is the result of a benzene leak from the refinery near his home. Now, the disease, the refinery and […]

Source: Sun News (Myrtle Beach, SC), May 24, 1011 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Electronic components maker AVX Corp. has purchased the Myrtle Beach property that it contaminated with a suspected carcinogen called trichloroethylene, according to Horry County property records. AVX paid nearly $4.6 million for the approximately 21.5-acre parcel previously owned by Horry Land Co., according to a […]

Source:  http://www.wlfi.com, May 24, 2011 By: Tiffanie Dismore Attorneys are calling a Kraft Global Foods settlement one of the first successful environmental lawsuits of its kind. Those involved in the class action lawsuit against a multi-billion dollar Kraft are comparing it to a biblical story. “It was back and forth negotiations like David and Goliath,” said […]

Source: http://standardspeaker.com, March 24,2011 By: Kent Jackson A machine still filters groundwater where gasoline seeped into a Hazleton neighborhood nearly two decades ago, triggering a $25 million cleanup and lawsuits that ended this week. By Wednesday, most of the 258 families hadn’t heard the terms of the settlements reached two days before in their suits […]