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Case ID: 4845 | Environmental | 06/19/2006
New Jersey resident Donald Coles charged that the Chambers Works Plant in Deepwater, N.J., released perfluorooctanoic acid (also known as PFOA or C8) and related chemicals into groundwater tapped by utility companies in New Jersey townships. Coles filed a lawsuit against the DuPont Co. that targets the company's releases of a chemical used to make nonstick and stain-resistant products.
Coles' suit seeks medical monitoring for residents, a community-wide water filtration system and punitive damages. PFOA is under intense federal scrutiny, triggered by concerns the chemical resists breakdown, accumulates in the environment and tissues and can potentially cause cancer and other illnesses. An advisory panel to the Environmental Protection Agency recently recommended listing the chemical as a likely carcinogen. In March, the agency quietly admitted chemicals used to make popular nonstick, nonstain products may be unsafe for humans and the environment. The admission came in documents seeking regulatory changes that would require closer scrutiny for new uses of the compound. DuPont already has agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for pollution releases to drinking-water supplies in West Virginia and Ohio from the company's Parkersburg, W.Va., plant. At Lawcash.com, it is our goal to keep you informed about important legal cases, class actions and settlements. Our lawyers offer free legal evaluations in tort cases, class actions, personal injury, and other lawsuits because we are dedicated to helping you resolve your legal complaints. Other Environmental Cases of Interest After nearly a decade of legal disputes, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. agreed to pay $295 million to settle a series of lawsuits alleging the utility sickened hundreds of people by contaminating the water in three California counties. The settlement, affecting about 1,100 people in Kings, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, moves PG&E closer to resolving a bitter battle that resurrected claims from a similar case made famous in the movie, "Erin Brockovich." Lawyers plan to seek financial compensation for more than 14 million Americans who paid too much for heating and cooking fuel because British Petroleum (BP) oil compay allegedly manipulated the market for propane. Chemtura Corporation announced October 18, 2005 that it has repealed certain parts of a Global Settlement Agreement in a class action lawsuit pending in the United States District Courts in the Northern District of California and the District of Connecticut. As announced last January, the Company reserved the right to cancel all or part of the Global Settlement Agreement based on the number of members of the applicable classes who exercised their opt out rights. As a result of opt outs in rubber chemicals and EPDM, the Company is currently negotiating settlements directly with the largest claimants in those actions. Chemtura does not intend to adjust the reserves previously established with respect to these lawsuits at this time. Developer D.R. Horton is lead defendant in a class-action complaint that accuses it of failing to disclose toxic hazards in its Hidden Oaks subdivision in Simi Valley. Horton and codefendants Western Pacific Housing, JLC Associates and four individuals allegedly sold new homes without disclosing dangerous environmental hazards from the nearby Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a 2,800-acre rocket, nuclear and engine research and testing facility. Lawyers filed a lawsuit seeking class action status against a Michigan landfill, claiming that waste brought in from Canada is causing harmful odors. The lawsuit claims that area residents have complained the Carleton Farms landfill receives a significant amount of waste from Canada whose noxious and harmful odors interfere with residents` ability to use and enjoy their property. More than 40 Mohawks filed a class action lawsuit in late November against General Motors Corp. and Alcoa Inc., who claim for years have dumped polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, into the river that flows through their territory.
The 44 named plaintiffs are all residents of Akwesasne, a reservation that straddles the U.S.-Canada border in northern New York state. The men, women and children named in the suit allege that they've suffered disease, illness or other ailments caused primarily by consuming fish contaminated with PCBs. |
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