Ohio Law Applies in Insurance Dispute over Superfund Remediation Costs November 2, 2023 By Claims Journal staff Ohio law must be used to resolve an insurance dispute involving a polluted site in Michigan caused by manufacturing companies...
Jersey Shore Town Sues to Overturn Toxic Waste Settlement Where Childhood Cancer Cases Rose October 5, 2023 By Wayne Parry TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — A Jersey Shore town where childhood cancer cases rose is trying to overturn a settlement...
Toxic Wastewater from Ohio Train Derailment Headed to Texas February 24, 2023 DEER PARK, Texas (AP) _ Toxic wastewater used to extinguish a fire following a train derailment in Ohio is headed...
150 Years of Spills: Philadelphia Refinery Cleanup Highlights Toxic Legacy of Fossil Fuels February 17, 2021 By Laila Kearney and Valerie Volcovici PHILADELPHIA — Wearing blue hard hats, white hazmat suits and respirator masks, workers carted away bags of debris on a...
South Carolina School Reopening Despite Toxic ‘Trash Mountain’ Fire August 20, 2019 BEAUFORT, S.C. — A South Carolina elementary is reopening for the first day of school despite a smoldering, toxic fire...
Shipping Resumes in Houston Channel Fouled by Chemical Spill March 26, 2019 The U.S. Gulf Coast’s most important industrial waterway partially reopened on Monday after it was polluted with cancer-causing benzene and...
Hazardous Waste Illegally Stored in Missouri September 11, 2017 Thirteen million pounds of hazardous waste has been illegally stored in a building in an eastern Missouri flood plain for...
2 Railroads Face Unique Pollution Lawsuit in California October 20, 2011 By NOAKI SCHWARTZ When the lump on her toddler’s tummy turned out to be a rare cancer, Carla Hernandez wondered if living just...