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Jury Returns Verdict For Plaintiffs In 1st Phase Of Contamination Trial
Posted on 2 Apr 2011 by Bill G Lowe

FRESNO, Calif. - (Mealey's) A federal jury in California on April 1 returned a verdict for the plaintiffs in the first phase of a mass tort action against the owners of an industrial site in Merced County, Calif., for allowing hexavalent chromium... Read More

Tags: Raul Valencia Abarca v. Merck , arsenic , hexavalent chromium , pollution , California , toxic torts , contaminated water , Merck , Litigation , Merced , aquifer , lawsuit , Meadowbrook Water , water , mass tort , BAC-Pritchard , Merced County

TVA Says Ash Spill Caused No Harm To People Suing
Posted on 17 Sep 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - (AP) Tennessee Valley Authority attorneys are asking a federal judge to dismiss 58 lawsuits over the toxic muck that spilled from a holding pond at one of the public utility's plants in 2008. The filing Friday asks the court to... Read More

Tags: cadmium , ash spill , arsenic , reservoirs , TVA , lead , chromium , mercury , hazardous substances , Kingston , Litigation , toxic , lawsuit , utility , Tennessee Valley Authority

Railroads Threatened With Lawsuits Over Diesel Exhaust
Posted on 22 Jun 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

LOS ANGELES - (AP) An environmental group threatened to sue two of the nation's biggest rail owners Tuesday under a novel legal theory that would classify diesel exhaust as hazardous waste. The Natural Resources Defense Council sent letters to Union... Read More

Tags: cadmium , BNSF , railroads , East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice , arsenic , Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway , pollution , Resource Conservation and Recovery Act , lead , California , Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice , Hazardous Waste , Natural Resources Defense Council , environment , diesel exhaust , Litigation , Clean Air Act , Union Pacific , RICRA

Judge Further Limits TVA Coal Ash Spill Lawsuits
Posted on 4 Aug 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - (AP) A federal court further limited lawsuits seeking damages from the Tennessee Valley Authority for its huge spill of toxin-laden coal ash, but the judge ruled that claims related to property damages and reduced property values... Read More

Tags: selenium , dam collapse , Damages , arsenic , Roane County , coal ash , TVA , lead , toxic torts , property damage , mercury , Environmental Protection Agency , coal ash spill , Emory River , Litigation , toxic , Tennessee , punitive , Tennessee Valley Authority

Toxic Nevada Mine Lawsuit Seeks $5 Million From BP, ARCO
Posted on 16 Feb 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

RENO, Nev. - (AP) Neighbors of a toxic mine in northern Nevada have filed a class-action lawsuit against BP America and Atlantic Richfield Co. accusing them of intentionally and negligently concealing the extent of the contamination leaking off the abandoned... Read More

Tags: Reno , arsenic , Nevada , Anaconda Copper , class action , Environmental Protection Agency , toxic mine , whistleblower , uranium , mine , groundwater , Litigation , Yerington , lawsuit , Atlantic Richfield , contamination , BP , ARCO , copper mine

Weitz & Luxenberg Sues Birds Eye Foods Over Alleged Pollutant Discharge
Posted on 26 May 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW YORK - Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. on May 17 filed a lawsuit on behalf of more than 70 Fennville , Mich., residents who allege that their properties have been contaminated and their health has been harmed by chemical pollutants that have entered... Read More

Tags: Birds Eye Foods , arsenic , Fennville , Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment , pollution , toxic torts , new lawsuit filings , wastewater , Robin Greenwald , Weitz & Luxenberg , Litigation , lawsuit , groundwater contamination , manganese , torts