News tagged with 'PCBs'

With three law firms and Erin Brockovich involved, the still mysterious cancer cluster at The Acreage in Palm Beach County is slowly moving toward litigation and some answers that the state of Florida has, so far, been unable to provide.

Dredging on the Hudson River has been halted over concerns that the probable carcinogen, PCB, is being churned up in the the silt where it settled 50 years ago. General Electric Company (GE) has reluctantly agreed to begin cleaning up the chemicals it dumped from 1946 to 1976.

Attorneys representing Monsanto Co. and Solutia Inc. in the now renowned Anniston, Alabama PCB contamination case are seeking the removal of Circuit Judge Joel Laird. The companies claim that Laird, who is currently considering whether to order a cleanup of the area, is biased against them. According to the 30-page r

Less than a week after an Alabama jury found Monsanto Co. liable for PCB contamination at an Anniston plant, a circuit judge ordered nine Monsanto executives to attend a meeting with lawyers to discuss a settlement agreement for thousands of remaining claims. Circuit Judge Joel Laird, in an effort to avoid additional

General Electric's (GE) Hudson River contamination case took an interesting turn last week when the Justice Department called for the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the company. The lawsuit claims the Superfund toxic-waste-cleanup law grants Federal regulators unrestrained power to order environmental cleanups.

Three thousand Anniston, Alabama residents involved in a class-action lawsuit against Solutia Incorporated and Monsanto Co. are breathing a sigh of relief today. A jury ruled in favor of the residents in a PCB contamination case. Anniston residents were seeking compensation for property damages caused by the producti

Over 3,000 Anniston, Alabama residents must wait for a jury to decide if they will receive compensation to clean up PCB contamination caused by a chemical company's factory. A class-action lawsuit filed by residents against Solutia Incorporated, a company that once manufactured PCBs for use in electrical insulation, w

A class-action lawsuit filed by more than 3,500 people against Solutia Incorporated, a company that once manufactured PCBs for use in electrical insulation, is scheduled to begin trial this week. The suit claims that Solutia, formerly Monsanto Co., knew that PCBs were toxic, yet lied about the substance's potential fo

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has mandated that the cleanup of PCB pollution in New York's Hudson River proceed. General Electric (GE) released over 1 million pounds of PCBs, polychlorinated biphenyls, into the river between 1940 and 1977. The EPA ordered GE to pay the projected $460 million cost of dredg

Once used as industrial coolants and lubricants, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were banned by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1976 when the chemicals were found to cause cancer in animals. Unfortunately, the substances have a nasty habit of hanging around the environment. Today, the EPA says almost on

The Mabb family of Queensbury, New York is suing General Electric Corp. for $1.2 million in damages. The lawsuit claims that the company failed to properly dispose of GE capacitators, used as power surge protectors, which led to PCB contamination of the Mabb's property. According to the family's attorney, Penny Mabb h