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March 28, 2011

Resident: Gas-spill settlement unfair

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 […]

March 23, 2011

Settlement made in gas spill case

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 […]

March 15, 2011

Plant cited for release of toxic chemicals

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 […]

March 14, 2011

Mill Pollution Lawsuit May Be Dismissed

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

March 14, 2011

Myrtle Beach officials consider legal action over AVX pollution

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 […]

March 7, 2011

Hearing in RES lawsuit focuses on class-action certification

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 […]

March 7, 2011

BRIEF: EPA fines St. Joseph company

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 […]

March 7, 2011

City ponders ways to clean up tires

Source: Picayune Item (MS), March 2, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Officials with the city of Picayune are seeking help from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality to clean up a large collection of used tires off of Neal Road. Life-long Goodyear community resident the Rev. John Goss has been before the city council a number […]

March 1, 2011

AVX settles contamination lawsuit

Source: Sun News (Myrtle Beach, SC), February 28, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com AVX Corp. on Monday reached a confidential settlement with an adjacent land owner over groundwater contamination near the manufacturer’s facility on 17th Avenue South in Myrtle Beach, bringing an end to a dispute that started in late 2007. The settlement was announced during […]

February 9, 2011

New Windsor taking firm to court in pollution dispute

Source: http://www.recordonline.com, February 5, 2011 By: Michael Randall The town is going to federal court to force a company to clean up ground water contamination allegedly from a manufacturing plant the firm sold 20 years ago. The parties have a court date Feb. 17. The alleged contamination is in Little Falls Park in the Ducktown […]

February 3, 2011

Chemical Spill Leads to Lawsuit in KY

Read here about how residents in a Kentucky neighborhood sued over a chemical spill and affected the sewer pipes.

January 12, 2011

Judge orders monitoring in Kiddie Kollege case

Publication Date 01/11/2011 Source: Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Doctors will monitor the health of the children who inhaled mercury vapors in their Gloucester County day-care center, a judge ruled Tuesday. New Jersey Superior Court Judge James E. Rafferty ordered the state, county and Franklin Township, as well as the owners of Kiddie Kollege, […]

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