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Exxon Mobil Wins Ruling In Alaska Oil Spill Case
Posted on 9 Mar 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - (AP) Exxon Mobil Corp. has won a round in a dispute with environmentalists who want more money to clean up oil left on the shoreline of Prince William Sound from the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker spill. U.S. District Judge H. Russel Holland... Read More

Tags: Exxon Mobil , Holland , Exxon Valdez , Prince William Sound , marine science , oil spill , Exxon , Alaska , Rick Steiner , cleanup , Litigation , lawsuit , University of Alaska

Kraft To Pay $8.1 Million To Settle Pollution Lawsuit
Posted on 23 May 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

INDIANAPOLIS - (AP) Kraft Foods Inc. will pay $8.1 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over pollution at a former factory in Attica, Ind. The lawsuit, filed in 2009 and representing nearly 130 families, claimed pollution from a former Kraft factory... Read More

Tags: Indiana , contaminated groundwater , pollution , Kraft , chemicals , class action , cancer , cleanup , Litigation , lawsuit , settle , factory

Mining Company To Pay $263 Million To Settle Superfund Lawsuit
Posted on 14 Jun 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

SPOKANE, Wash. - (AP) The largest mining company in Idaho's Silver Valley will pay $263.4 million plus interest to settle one of the nation's largest Superfund lawsuits one of the top 10 such settlements in history, the U.S. Environmental Protection... Read More

Tags: Silver Valley , Coeur d'Alene River Basin , ASARCO , Department of Justice , tribal governments , Coeur d'Alene Tribe , Environmental Protection Agency , silver , Coeur d'Alene , Hecla Mining , cleanup , Idaho , Lucky Friday Mine , Litigation , mining , Settlement , mining wastes , EPA , Superfund

NYC Mayor Urges Settlement Of 9/11 Health Lawsuits
Posted on 5 Oct 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW YORK - (AP) New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the special master of the 9/11 compensation fund are urging ground zero workers to settle thousands of lawsuits over health problems caused by World Trade Center dust. Lawyers for about 10,000 workers... Read More

Tags: New York , Kenneth Feinberg , 9/11 , World Trade Center , cleanup , Litigation , lawsuit , 9/11 compensation fund , Settlement , ground zero , Michael Bloomberg

AIG Pays $23M In Gulf Oil Spill Claims; Total May Rise
Posted on 6 Aug 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW YORK - (AP) Taxpayers took another hit, this one indirect, from the oil spill caused by the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion through insurance claims related to the disaster. AIG, the insurance giant that is 80 percent owned by the government, said... Read More

Tags: fisheries , Chartis , property damage , oil spill , wrongful death , Gulf spill , AIG , Deepwater Horizon , environmental damage , American International Group , cleanup , Litigation , Insurance , class actions , lawsuit , bodily injury , Gulf Coast , BP , business interruption , Gulf of Mexico

Law Center Prepares Lawsuit Over Mich. Oil Spill
Posted on 3 Aug 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

MARSHALL, Mich. - (AP) A public interest law firm prepared Monday to sue the owners of a pipeline that ruptured in southern Michigan and dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a Kalamazoo River tributary, while residents voiced concerns to... Read More

Tags: Battle Creek , pipeline , Consumers Energy , Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment , flood plain , Enbridge Inc. , NTSB , oil spill , Great Lakes Law Center , Environmental Protection Agency , habitat , Patrick Daniel , cleanup , Marengo Township , National Transportation Safety Board , Litigation , Michigan , Kalamazoo River , lawsuit , wildlife , benzene , Clean Water Act , EPA

Farm Bureau Sues EPA Over Chesapeake Bay Cleanup
Posted on 11 Jan 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

HARRISBURG, Pa. - (AP) Two farmers' organizations sued the federal government Monday over a Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan, challenging the legality of its pollution standards and asking a judge to keep them from being enforced or applied. The American... Read More

Tags: Chesapeake Bay , sediment , pollution , Farm Bureau , American Farm Bureau Federation , farmers , Pennsylvania Farm Bureau , phosphorus , Environmental Protection Agency , cleanup , run-off , Litigation , lawsuit , pollutants , EPA , nitrogen , Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future

Environmental Groups Sue To Spur Cape Cod Cleanup
Posted on 25 Aug 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

BOSTON - (AP) Two environmental organizations have sued federal environmental regulators in an effort to accelerate the cleanup of Cape Cod's coastal waters. The Conservation Law Foundation and the Coalition for Buzzards Bay allege in a lawsuit filed... Read More

Tags: Cape Cod , stormwater , wastewater , environment , cleanup , runoff , Litigation , lawsuit , Conservation Law Foundation , Septic systems , U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , Coalition for Buzzards Bay , EPA , nitrogen

Court Asked To OK New Hanford Cleanup Schedule
Posted on 7 Oct 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

SPOKANE, Wash. - (AP) State and federal agencies asked a federal judge Wednesday to approve a new cleanup schedule for the Hanford nuclear reservation, the nation's most polluted nuclear weapons site. The motion filed by the U.S. Department of Energy... Read More

Tags: chemical , Tri-Party Agreement , Columbia River , consent decree , U.S. Energy Secretary , Hanford cleanup , Judge Fred Van Sickle , U.S. Department of Energy , underground storage tanks , Gerry Pollet , Hanford nuclear reservation , cleanup , Pasco , Washington state Department of Ecology , Heart of America Northwest , Litigation , Kennewick , Sen. Patty Murray , Steven Chu , lawsuit , Richland , DOE , U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , waste , radioactive , nuclear waste