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
DALLAS - On Oct. 23, 2012, the law firm of Baron and Budd announced a $105 million settlement on behalf of more than 1,000 community water systems that have detected the chemical atrazine in their water supplies. On Nov. 27, the deadline to appeal the... Read More
By A. Keith "Kip" McAlister, Jr. | With much fanfare, EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) recently issued a final rule clarifying which bodies of water are “waters of the United States” protected under the... Read More
HINKLEY, Calif. - (AP) At the end of "Erin Brockovich , " a housewife sick from toxic chromium weeps with joy as she's handed her portion of a historic $333 million settlement between residents of this small desert town and the utility that... Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. - (AP) The Supreme Court won't force Florida water managers to get permits to pump contaminated water from farmland into Lake Okeechobee. The high court refused to hear an appeal from the Friends of the Everglades, the Florida Wildlife... Read More
ST. LOUIS, Mich. - (AP) A federal judge has approved a $26.5 million settlement for a central Michigan community whose water supply was contaminated by a chemical company in the 1950s and 1960s. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas L. Ludington in Bay City... Read More
BILLINGS, Mont. - (AP) The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Wyoming farmers are not taking too much water from a river system they share with neighboring Montana. The high court turned away Montana's complaint that Wyoming was violating a 1950... Read More
LOS ANGELES - A class action lawsuit was filed Sept. 7 on behalf of private water utilities and commercial property owners potentially seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from JM Eagle for allegedly knowingly supplying substandard polyvinyl chloride... Read More