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Category: Environmental Contamination

Category: Environmental Contamination
STUDY LINKS VAPOR INTRUSION TO BIRTH DEFECTS
January 13, 2012 | keith@clixsy.com
For decades, hundreds of homes in a section of Union, New York known as Endicott have been sitting above a plume of TCE and PCE contaminated groundwater. TCE and PCE are man-made solvents historically used by corporations to strip grease and grime off metal parts. Endicott is just south of a former ...
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Before we get to the broken promise, let’s first re-cap DOE’s disregard for the health of the children who have attended The Bronx New School for the last 20 years [feel free to visit my previous blogs on this subject dated: 8/30, 8/26, and 8/22. ] (1) In 1992, DOE signs a 20-year lease to [&hel...
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Posted in: TCE
EPA ADMITS FRACKING POLLUTES GROUNDWATER
December 19, 2011 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
EPA has finally acknowledged that fracking can cause groundwater contamination. In a draft report issued this month concerning an investigation into the contamination of a drinking water aquifer in Wyoming, the EPA concluded “. . . . the explanation best fitting the data for the deep monitoring we...
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This is a hopeful story. But it must first wind its way through some seemingly discouraging territory. Hang with me, though, and we’ll get to the hopeful part. I promise. Here’s the discouraging part: You cannot trust your government to tell you that your air or water is contaminated. Or to prot...
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Posted in: TCE
IS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION FOR SALE… OR DOES IT JUST LOOK THAT WAY?
November 17, 2011 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
You may have heard that President Obama is trying to get himself re-elected. What you may not have heard is what US EPA Chief, Lisa Jackson, is doing to help him. Last month, the President sent out an invitation to attend his money-raising events in San Francisco. The invitation said that, by giving...
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AT LONG LAST EPA DECLARES TCE A HUMAN CARCINOGEN
October 4, 2011 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
After slow-walking the process consistent with its decades-long standard operating procedure, the U.S. EPA finally recognized what credible scientists have been saying for many years: exposure to TCE causes cancer. The earth is not flat after all. On September 28, EPA released the final health asses...
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Posted in: TCE
The Politics of Pollution: Corporate Polluters Win Again
September 20, 2011 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
After a twenty-year wait, EPA was set to issue its updated hazard assessment for trichloroethylene (“TCE“) earlier this month. Unfortunately – – at least for everyday American citizens – – the deadline passed without a word from EPA. TCE is a man-made volatile organic compound used by co...
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PLAYING CHICKEN WITH CONTAMINATION: Bronx New School Officials Show How Not To Protect Children
August 30, 2011 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
Basin City, Washington got it right. Last Thursday, Basin City took tests of the system that feeds water into the local elementary school and found E. coli bacteria. So, school officials immediately notified the parents of the children attending Basin City Elementary School. They also decided that t...
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Posted in: TCE
Pollution Lawyers Team Recognized By Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
August 11, 2011 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
The Pollution Lawyers were recently recognized in two articles published by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin for our work in pollution cases. One article discusses the joining of our two firms to create The Pollution Lawyers name, our history, including our obtaining many millions of dollars for our c...
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Let me ask you something: If the air breathed by children attending an American elementary school was contaminated by lead levels so high that it could damage their brains, and cause them life-long learning disabilities, how long would you say their parents should have to wait until that air was cle...
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