Environmental

March 4, 2019 A Nebraska homeowner has filed a class action in which he claims NextEra Energy's wind farms are, among other issues, a nuisance to nearby residents.

December 6, 2018 California residents allege in a proposed class action that Pacific Gas & Electric's negligence in maintaining its electrical infrastructure is to blame for the deadly Camp Fire.

November 5, 2018 A class action lawsuit alleges Keurig Green Mountain's supposedly recyclable single-serve coffee pods are not, in fact, recyclable.

May 22, 2018 Two Tennessee soybean farmers have filed suit against the makers of a dicamba-tolerant crop system that has supposedly caused 'massive harm' to crops throughout the country.

May 18, 2018 A California woman claims in a proposed class action lawsuit that Costco’s Kirkland Signature branded dish soap and laundry detergent are not 'environmentally responsible' despite their labels’ claims.

May 17, 2018 Eagle Road Oil LLC and Cummings Oil Company have been named in a proposed class action filed by a Native American tribe in Oklahoma that claims the defendants’ disposal of fracking wastewater 'deep into the earth' has caused devastating earthquakes.

April 11, 2018 Per a lawsuit, 3M is among four companies responsible for alleged soil, water contamination caused by the use of Aqueous Film Forming Foam during fire training exercises.

March 27, 2018 Fort Myers, Florida and its mayor and city manager face a lawsuit over an alleged arsenic-contaminated open dump site in the city's Dunbar neighborhood.

February 22, 2018 A proposed class action filed back in June 2017 against Monsanto Company, BASF SE and BASF Corporation was in early February transferred into the still-growing multidistrict litigation.

January 8, 2018 According to a lawsuit, Pine Valley Farms and three bottling cos. advertise and sell bottled 'raw' water they pass off as derived from a natural spring.

November 21, 2017 A lawsuit has been filed by a group of nine Japanese individuals and businesses against General Electric Company after its alleged negligence in designing and constructing the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant caused a disastrous nuclear explosion.

September 7, 2017 A husband and wife, citing possible Tucker Act violations, have filed a proposed class action against the US and the Army Corps of Engineers in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

August 29, 2017 Fourteen plaintiffs say a long-closed Sherwin-Williams plant in Gibbsboro, NJ is to blame for cancer diagnoses, birth defects and other problems caused by contaminated groundwater.

April 14, 2017 A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed in Pennsylvania against First Energy Corp., NRG Energy, and Matt Canestrale Contracting, Inc.

March 24, 2017 Ametek, Inc., an executive officer, and Senior Operations LLC, are the defendants in a lawsuit that claims the companies have been leaking toxic waste into the ground.

October 27, 2016 The Cullars Family Timber Farm, Prater Family Partnership and others have filed a class action against Weyerhaeuser Company.