Environmental

September 16, 2020 A class action looks to represent San Francisco Police Department employees allegedly exposed to radioactive substances at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.

September 15, 2020 A class action claims Sprague Operating Resources' Providence, RI petroleum storage facility unlawfully emits noxious odors into the surrounding community.

August 26, 2020 The operator of the Atlas Point plant in New Castle, Del. faces a class action claiming the facility has emitted toxic, cancer-causing levels of Ethylene Oxide gas.

August 6, 2020 Waste Management Inc. of Florida faces a class action in which a Doral resident claims noxious odors emitted by a landfill operated by the co. has disrupted community life.

May 26, 2020 A class action lawsuit claims the failures of the Edenville and Stanford Dams were the result of "a decades-long failure to comply with regulatory requirements."

April 17, 2020 Residents of Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood have filed a lawsuit after the demolition of a smokestack at a coal power plant site blanketed the area with potentially toxic dust.

January 15, 2020 A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed over the alleged contamination of Louisiana residents' properties from a creosoting plant once operated by International Paper Company.

January 8, 2020 The companies involved with Ohio's Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant face more class action litigation alleging the facility expelled radioactive material into the environment.

July 26, 2019 A wastewater spill that contaminated the Mulberry Fork segment of Alabama’s Black Warrior River is at the center of two proposed class action lawsuits filed against Tyson Farms, Inc. and several other allegedly responsible parties.

June 5, 2019 A dozen sugarcane processors face a class action over property damage and health problems allegedly linked to pre-harvest sugarcane burning in Florida.

May 28, 2019 Residents of Pike County, Ohio have filed a proposed class action over the alleged contamination of their properties by radioactive material stemming from uranium enrichment operations that occurred at a 3,777-acre area known as the Portsmouth Site.

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.