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 […]

Source: Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA), March 22, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A plaintiff in a 10-year-old lawsuit in which hundreds of Hazleton residents claimed they were sickened or had their property damaged in a gasoline spill settled his case Monday. Attorneys for ExxonMobil and plaintiff Robert J. Stevens were in Luzerne County Court on Monday […]

Source: Richmond Register (KY), March 12, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection issued 10 notices of violation Thursday to the plant formerly known as Tokico, for its release of wastewater contaminated with a toxic pollutant. The department’s Environmental Response Team (ERT) responded Feb. 4 to a report from Hitachi Automotive Systems […]

Read here about how the former owner’s of a Maryland steel mill have requested that a lawsuit be dismissed.

Source: http://www.thesunnews.com, March 10, 2011 By: David Wren Myrtle Beach officials say they are concerned that groundwater contamination from AVX Corp. might be more widespread than previously thought, and they are looking into whether legal action is warranted against the manufacturer. “We want to know what liability they [AVX] have to the city and to […]

Source: Joplin Globe (MO), March 2, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Jasper County Circuit Court Judge David Dally is expected to rule in 10 days on whether or not Carthage residents can sue as a class over damages from odors allegedly coming from Renewable Environmental Solutions of Carthage. Dally heard two hours of arguments today focusing […]

Source: St. Joseph News-Press (MO), March 2, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A St. Joseph company will pay a $64,804 civil penalty for a series of Environmental Protection Agency violations at its manufacturing facility in St. Joseph, Mo. Albaugh, which makes and packages generic fertilizers and herbicides, agreed to pay a civil penalty for a series […]