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Category: Environmental Contamination

Category: Environmental Contamination
GET YOUR WELL WATER TESTED!
August 8, 2011 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
This is about the importance of getting your well water tested, immediately, when there is even the possibility that it is contaminated. North Stamford, Connecticut, and Rockford, Illinois are half a country apart and have many other things that would seem to distinguish them from one another. But t...
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Does Fracking Pressure Unearth Positive Legal Change?
July 6, 2011 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
Texas recently became the first state to require drillers to disclose the chemicals they use to extract petroleum and gas from rock formations. See, Texas Fracking Bill While the fluids injected deep into the earth to recover oil and gas consist primarily of water and sand, they include mixtures of ...
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In the wake of the hysteria generated by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s crusade against collective bargaining for public sector workers like teachers and firefighters, a new tea party inspired problem has surfaced in Wisconsin. This problem concerns the environment. Walker’s controversial app...
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Polluters Underestimating Their Pollution: Liars… or Just Idiots?
June 10, 2011 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
TMaddening, but not surprising. Business as usual, really. Earlier this week, Japan’s nuclear power industry announced that the amount of radioactivity that spewed out of the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor was more than twice the original estimate of just 3 months ago. More than twice. The same...
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Vapor Intrusion Class Action Settlement
June 3, 2011 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
The Pollution Lawyers recently received final court approval of an $8.1 million settlement of one of its environmental contamination cases. In late 2008, families in the small town of Attica, Indiana learned that toxic chemical vapors were entering the air inside their homes. After getting the bad n...
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Another Big Day for Polluters/Another Bad Day for America
May 26, 2011 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
On nearly the one year anniversary of the Gulf Oil Spill, last week the President and Congress shook hands on a deal that stripped more than $1.5 billion – 16% – from the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency, specifically gutting funds for reducing pollution from coal mining and power p...
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Five Things to Do if Your Water or Neighborhood Is (or Might Be) Polluted
May 23, 2011 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
(1) Get smart. Find out the names of the polluting chemicals. You will usually learn them, as most of our clients have, from a newspaper article or TV story, or from a letter or knock on the door from a government official. You need to know the chemicals’ names so that you can learn about [&hellip...
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Why We Shouldn’t Trust What Polluters Say
May 19, 2011 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
It’s a heartbreaking spectacle. Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactor spewing radioactive material into the air and ocean. Yet, even though it’s half a world away, this disaster offers a lesson to Americans that is much bigger than simply, “Let’s be careful about nuclear power.” The message ...
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Big Day for Polluters
May 16, 2011 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
Last week, the President and Congress shook hands on a deal that stripped more than $1.5 billion – 16% – from the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency, specifically gutting funds for reducing pollution from coal mining and power plants. Why? Too much clean air in power plant neighborhoo...
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The Gulf Oil Spill, Fukushima, the Budget Bill: Why The Government Doesn’t Protect Us
May 12, 2011 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
We’ve been representing families in lawsuits against polluters for filling their homes with toxic chemicals for the better part of the last decade. We’ve obtained safe water supplies and clean air in homes for thousands of families, and recovered millions of dollars in lost property value for th...
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