Twombly and Iqbal––or “Twiqbal” as the cases are sometimes known in legal circles––can often make or break a plaintiff’s litigation. Courts around the country have vigorously enforced this doctrine on case dismissal, sometimes dismissing even those complaints with lengthy and detailed factual ...
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Environmental Torts
Big Step Forward for $50 Billion Plan to Save Louisiana Coast
The next phase of a $50 billion plan to protect the Louisiana coast from erosion and rising sea levels has cleared an important hurdle, with the Army Corps of Engineers delivering a long-awaited environmental impact statement for a key part of the project.
The report, issued Thursday evening, ...
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A glimmer of hope in environmental civil rights law
In 2015, the nation was horrified by the news coming out of Flint, Michigan. The small industrial city about an hour’s drive north from Detroit was poisoned by the reckless indifference of their public officials, and the contaminated water those officials allowed to course through the corroded pipes ...
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Gillibrand Introduces Legislation To Ban Firefighting Foam With Cancer-Causing Chemicals
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York has introduced a bill that would ban the use of firefighting foam that contains cancer-causing PFAS chemicals.
PFAS are found in firefighting foams used at airports and military bases. Direct exposure to PFAS by firefighters has been linked to ...
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Water near Arizona Air Force base is tainted in latest case
PHOENIX -- The U.S. Air Force says it will be distributing bottled water to thousands of residents and business owners near its base in suburban Phoenix until at least April, marking the latest case of chemicals from military firefighting efforts contaminating the water supply in a nearby ...
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‘Cost of Silence’: Film Review
Most Americans who don't live on the Gulf Coast have, in all likelihood, long ago stopped thinking about the causes and effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. It's impossible to hold all the world's crises in your mind at once, and a relief to set one aside. We do the latter, often, because ...
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Bayer reaches $2 billion deal over future Roundup cancer claims
Bayer AG struck a $2 billion deal to resolve future legal claims that its widely used weedkiller Roundup causes cancer, the German company said on Wednesday.
Bayer has been struggling to finalize the settlement of claims that Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides cause non-Hodgkin's ...
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DuPont, Chemours reach agreement over ‘forever chemicals’
The Dupont Co. and its spinoff business Chemours have agreed to resolve legal disputes over environmental liabilities for pollution related to man-made chemicals associated with an increased risk of cancer and other health problems.
The binding memorandum of understanding announced Friday comes ...
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Firefighters Battle an Unseen Hazard: Their Gear Could Be Toxic
Every day at work for 15 years, Sean Mitchell, a captain in the Nantucket Fire Department, has put on the bulky suit that protects him from the heat and flames he faces on the job. But last year, he and his team came across unsettling research: Toxic chemicals on the very equipment meant to protect ...
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Federal Appeals Court Rejects Trump Admin’s ACE Rule
A federal court has struck down the Trump administration's Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) Rule, which would repeal and replace the greenhouse gas emissions reduction plan issued by former President Barack Obama.
Supporters of the Trump administration rule say that the decision could be the first ...
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