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BUTTE, Mont. - The U.S. Department of Justice announced Feb. 13 that the federal government and Atlantic Richfield Co. have reached an agreement wherein the company will spend $150 million to remediate a portion of a Montana Superfund site by removing...

NEW YORK - The journal Environmental Health on Feb. 12 published an article in which a researcher determined that the strongest evidence shows that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, causes cancer in mice. The researcher said...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Feb. 12 partially granted and partially denied a law firm's requests for information from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Freedom of Information...

PITTSBURGH - Two residents who live next to two sawmills filed a lawsuit against the owners Feb. 12 in federal court in Pennsylvania, complaining that increased activity at the sawmills is adversely affecting their property and health and violating a...

NEW YORK - Sufficient questions exist about whether a power company retained control over a worksite to deny its motion seeking summary judgment in a trench digger's asbestos action, a New York justice held in an opinion posted Feb. 11 (Maria Mauro...

LEWISTON, Maine - The owners of three metal recycling facilities on Feb. 10 entered into an agreement with the federal government in federal court in Maine to resolve allegations that the companies were violating the Clean Water Act through discharges...

HAMMOND, Ind. - A federal judge in Indiana on Feb. 11 ruled that tenants in a housing complex had a valid due process claim related to a property interest against a housing authority that failed to remediate lead contamination (Kendra Mabry, et al. v...

NEW YORK - An attorney for the U.S. government and an attorney for Steven R. Donziger, the attorney who won an $18.5 billion judgment against Chevron Corp. in a court in Ecuador for injuries only to have it reversed, on Feb. 11 debated before the Second...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Northrop Grumman Corp. and its affiliates on Feb. 7 filed an answer and affirmative defenses in New York federal court in which they deny all allegations against them for injuries related to groundwater contamination, maintain that the...

SEATTLE - A trial court properly considered the potential verdicts and likelihood of success when determining the reasonableness of a $4.5 million covenant agreement in an asbestos case, a Washington appeals court held Feb. 11 (Robert P. Ulbricht, et...

DAYTON, Ohio - A federal judge in Ohio on Feb. 10 denied motions to exclude the proffered expert testimony of an allocation expert and a waste stream specialist brought by defendant companies in a Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and...

SAN FRANCISCO - A glyphosate cancer victim on Feb. 11 filed a brief in California appeals court contending that it should affirm a verdict in his favor against Monsanto Co., the maker of the herbicide Roundup, and arguing that the appellate court does...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - An Indian wholesale tobacco company in New York asks the U.S. Supreme Court to review a California appeals court holding that the state has jurisdiction to regulate the company's sales to a tribe in California in a petition for...

PHILADELPHIA - At trial, a man will produce nothing but inadmissible evidence, speculation and the rejected market-share theory of liability in an asbestos case, a quartet of defendants argue in Feb. 7 pretrial memoranda filed in Pennsylvania federal...

DAYTON, Ohio - A federal judge in Ohio on Feb. 10 ruled that the transcript and three summaries of a 2005 interview between a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigator and a now-deceased truck driver who said he regularly delivered drums of plating...