On January 6, 2005 a train derailment unleashed a cloud of chlorine gas over the small mill town of Graniteville, South Carolina. The toxic release left nine dead, hundreds injured, and thousands more without a home for nearly a week. Last month, a federal judge approved a $10.5 million dollar settlement to compensate [...]
Apparently, ExxonMobil Corp. still doesn’t believe that global warming is a serious problem, or at least the oil giant doesn’t act like it is. Recently, the company reiterated its position that creating far-reaching policies to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions is important, but premature. This statement came as a number of shareholders jumped [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency recently issued proposed rules that would permit coal-fired power plants to increase emissions, which contradict not only the Clean Air Act but also the recent United States Supreme Court opinion we wrote about in May. The proposed rules would exempt coal-fired power plants from the Clean Air Act’s key provisions [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has sued ExxonMobil Corp. and 95 other companies and cities to recover cleanup costs from a Superfund site in Plaistow, New Hampshire. The EPA said Beede Waste Oil illegally dumped oil and toxic chemicals at the 41-acre site before it was shut down in 1994. A brook that [...]
Mike Andrews, along with James Ferrell and Andrew McEnaney of the law firm of R.G. Taylor and Associates, will try an asbestos / mesothelioma lawsuit in July against several corporate defendants in Beaumont, Texas. After working for over 40 years as a joiner, or marine carpenter, in the Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, our [...]
