When Bayer, the giant German chemical and pharmaceutical maker, acquired Monsanto two years ago, the company knew it was also buying the world’s best-known weedkiller. What it didn’t anticipate was a legal firestorm over claims that the herbicide, Roundup, caused cancer.
Now Bayer is moving to put ...
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Environmental Torts
PRESCRIPTION IS NOT WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED
The most important decision our clients make often occurs before we’ve ever met them. It is to determine when they seek out legal counsel on an issue of harm. Whether a person decides to call an attorney may seem like the first of many steps in vindicating their rights — and it is — but waiting too ...
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Exposed to Toxins? You May Have a Toxic Tort Class Action
Toxic tort refers to the type of case you have when you have been harmed by exposure to a toxin, whether that toxin was a chemical, mineral, heavy metal, mold, radioactive material or another type of substance. Depending on the circumstances, you may have an individual claim or a class action. Class ...
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Is Your Water Contaminated with Benzene?
Benzene is a toxic chemical and one of the 20 most widely used chemicals in the U.S. Exposure to Benzene increases your risk of developing cancer and a host of other serious health problems. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets maximum levels of contaminants in drinking water that it ...
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Toxins Found at Nearly All Coal Ash Ponds
Widespread groundwater contamination has been found near sites storing coal ash in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia, among others. Coal ash is the toxic result of coal being burned to generate electricity. Coal ash is the material that collects at the bottom of a furnace as ...
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Link Between Glyphosate and Cancer Confirmed
After much debate about whether glyphosate-based herbicides lead to a form of cancer known as non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), a study has confirmed that people with high exposure to the popular weed-killing pesticide have a 41% increased risk of developing terminal NHL, also known as “lymphoma.” One ...
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Residents Concerned About Toxic Substances in their CA Town
Residents in Brawley, California are fed up with living in constant danger of toxic chemicals left behind by an 11-acre former Pure-Gro facility, owned by Chevron, that closed down 19 years ago. The site is just only a couple of blocks away from schools serving hundreds of children and a few feet ...
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Nevada Governor Angered by Plutonium Shipment
Much to the chagrin of Nevada’s governor, Steve Sisolak, a half metric ton of plutonium arrived in Nevada from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina sometime recently, he just doesn’t know exactly when.
The state of Nevada fought long and hard to keep the plutonium out of the area where it’s ...
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Groundwater in 22 States Contains Arsenic and Other Deadly Contaminants
A recent publication indicates that United States utility companies in 22 states have reported nearby groundwater contamination. Many of those utility companies have been discovered to have coal-ash pollution so severe that cleanup plans have been mandated. But the question remains, how long do ...
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Unsafe Water Has Families Worried in Michigan (and Small Towns Everywhere)
Safe drinking water is a bipartisan issue. Environmental concerns in the news affect us all because we share the same address: Anytown, America. There should be nothing political about safe drinking water. Yet, with local, state and federal agencies regulating something as important as drinking ...
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